A KEY component to campus access control? If you stay in a hotel that still issues a traditional metal key you are likely to be staying in either a quaint bed-and-breakfast or a decrepit motor lodge.

Your next hotel room stay may not be as secure as you hope it is. A group of security researchers who were invited to a Las Vegas hotel to identify digital security ...

There is a new warning for travelers after researchers, posed as hackers, expose a security flaw that could open millions of hotel-room doors. The good news is, they're helping to fix the problem ...

Researchers have developed a simple exploit capable of unlocking all of the doors at more than 10,000 hotels worldwide. Saflok-brand RFID-based keycard locks have been around for 36 years. But only in ...

I'd wager just about everyone has stayed in a hotel that uses the key card locks where you slide a little card into the door to release the locking mechanism. One hotel called the Hyatt in the Houston ...

Thieves are now finding it easier than ever to break into hotel rooms which issue guests with magnetic cards to unlock doors. According to The Sunday Times, thieves are increasingly gaining access to ...

The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door. If you find a DC power port there, take note: With a few hacker tricks and a handful of cheap ...

A ransomware infection has wreaked havoc at Romantik Seehotel Jägerwirt, a four-star hotel in the Austrian Alps, on the lip of the Turracher Höhe mountain lake. The incident took place earlier this ...