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.

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 ...

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 ...

Good news for the security of hotels and travelers: Onity, whose keycard locks can be found on at least four million rooms around the world, has a plan to fix a security flaw that could allow ...

Other hackers, also inspired by Brocious, have developed their own devices to pick Onity locks. However, the James Bond lock-picking pen seems to be the smallest and perhaps the coolest yet.

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 ...