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posted by chromas on Saturday April 28 2018, @06:13AM   Printer-friendly
from the F'd-security dept.

Hotel door locks worldwide were vulnerable to hack

Millions of electronic door locks fitted to hotel rooms worldwide have been found to be vulnerable to a hack. Researchers say flaws they found in the equipment's software meant they could create "master keys" that opened the rooms without leaving an activity log.

The F-Secure team said it had worked with the locks' maker over the past year to create a fix. But the Swedish manufacturer is playing down the risk to those hotels that have yet to install an update. "Vision Software is a 20-year-old product, which has been compromised after 12 years and thousands of hours of intensive work by two employees at F-Secure," said a spokeswoman for the company, Assa Abloy.

Also at F-Secure.


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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Saturday April 28 2018, @11:17AM (1 child)

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Saturday April 28 2018, @11:17AM (#672970) Homepage
    Distract her attention. Clone her key. Bish-bosh, in-out, all normal-looking logs.

    Anyone who thinks there's security behind a door that you don't own is living in cloud cuckoo land.
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  • (Score: 4, Informative) by pTamok on Saturday April 28 2018, @01:28PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Saturday April 28 2018, @01:28PM (#673004)

    Most doors and locks are there to keep honest people honest. Very few locks and doors will keep a determined intruder out.

    What is at issue here is that it appears access could be gained without leaving any evidence of access. A broken window or a forced door give you a reason to involve the police and/or insurance, but when there is no evidence of intrusion, you have a hard time convincing others that (for example) a theft took place.