Researchers have discovered that hacking into a hotel room can be done with pretty much any electronic key lying around. Master keys for hotel rooms can be created “out of thin air,” F-Secure, a ...

Some hotels offer these features through their mobile apps, allowing guests to bypass the front desk and head straight to their room without the wait. The room door opens with the mobile key when the ...

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 at cybersecurity firm F-Secure have designed a device that can pull data off of hotel key cards and essentially create a master key for an entire hotel. Alarmingly, the key card doesn't ...

Let the record state that I am not a fan of the plastic hotel room key card. I lose them. I confuse them with credit cards and I fumble trying to figure out which way the card goes into the lock. They ...

Technology that allows hotel guests to use their phones as room keys is expanding, taking aim at those environmentally unfriendly plastic cards. By Karen Schwartz The demonstration using the cellphone ...

However, there's a very common key card habit that is surprisingly dangerous. Often during check in, key cards are handed over in a smart envelope with the room number and hotel name written on it, ...