The first approach will include providing a mechanical cap, free of charge, to our customers, who have the Onity HT series locks. This mechanical cap will be inserted into the portable programmer ...

Forbes first reported that the compromise came about because of a security flaw in Onity's hotel door locks, and now hotels are scrambling to make a fix after a string of robberies in Texas.

The Onity keycard lock that is used on millions of hotel room doors has reportedly been hacked. According to Forbes, 24-year-old Mozilla Firefox OS programmer Cody Brocious discovered the ...

Brocious used an open-source tool known as Arduino, a portable programming platform. Arduino was used as a substitute for the commercial portable programmer that an Onity lock would typically require.

More than nine months after the hotel lock firm Onity announced a fix for a security flaw that allowed anyone to gain access to millions of hotel rooms in seconds, that lock-hacking technique ...

Bad news: With less than $50 of off-the-shelf hardware and a little bit of programming, it's possible for a hacker to gain instant, untraceable access to millions of key card-protected hotel rooms.

VideoA still from a video of computer tinkerer Richard Kindel demonstrating his Onity lock-opening device at a Michigan Hilton. When lock maker Onity first responded last month to news that a ...

If, during your next hotel stay, you're met with a lock on your door like that pictured above, it's time for a conversation with management. This is an Onity HT series lock. Cody Brocious claims ...

At the Black Hat security conference, a hacker picked Onity hotel keycard locks in less time than it takes to blink. These locks are in about 22,000 hotels worldwide, leaving about four million ...

Onity locks have a DC power port under the keycard lock, so Brocious plugged his Arduino microcontroller into that port and was able to read the 32-bit key stored in the lock’s memory location.

In response to a Black Hat security conference demonstration in July, electronic lock maker Onity is rolling out fixes to problems that were easily exploited by a 24-year-old security researcher.

Faulty guest room locks demonstrated by ABC News report. Oct. 22, 2012— -- A report by ABC News showing how easy it was to break into certain electronic door locks used by major hotels has ...