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.

At the Black Hat Las Vegas security conference in July, Cody Brocious showed how “stupidly simple” it was to exploit Onity keycard-protected hotel rooms and that the lockpicking for untraceable access ...

Electronic lock provider Onity and Residential Management Systems have created a new interface for the 80 colleges using their services which slashes in half the check-in time for students first ...

Can anyone argue against this being the least-secure hotel room lock on the market? Regular readers will recognize it as an Onity key card lock. A few months back a glaring flaw in the security was ...