The radio-frequency ID key card system in question, Vision by Vingcard, has been replaced by many hotels with new technology, but its current owner Assa Abloy estimated that the system is still ...

With a $300 Proxmark RFID card reading and writing tool, any expired keycard pulled from the trash of a target hotel, and a set of cryptographic tricks developed over close to 15 years of on-and ...

It worked with Assa Abloy to patch the software, which was used in 42,000 properties in 166 countries, said Tomi Tuominen, of Helsinki, one of researchers. “ We broke and then it got fixed ...

The RFID card uses electromagnetic fields to unlock the combination placed on a hotel room’s key card reader. Security experts told Fortune, the process can take only one minute to complete.

"We built a RFID demo environment in 2015 and were able to create our first master key for a real hotel in March 2017," they said. "If somebody was to do this full time, it would probably take ...

Assa Abloy Hospitality's VingCard Classic RFID door locks were recently installed at the Renaissance Toronto Downtown Hotel, which is located inside the Rogers Centre, home of Major League ...

The device exploits a design vulnerability in the Vision line of key cards produced by VingCard, owned by Assa Abloy. This particular system is one of the most widely deployed key card systems.

The hospitality unit of Assa Abloy, a Stockholm-based manufacturer and supplier of locking systems, says its first RFID-enabled lock is in beta-testing at a number of European hotels. The lock—a ...

Demagnetized or lost hotel key cards may soon become a problem of the past as Starwood Hotels rolls out keyless entry in its smartphone app. ... Claire Reilly Nov. 3, 2014 5:12 p.m. PT 2 min read ...