An Onity lock and (inset) the circuit board Onity has now offered to replace for a full reimbursement in many hotels' doors. After four months, countless hacking embarrassments and a string ...

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 ...

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 pen builds on the work of security buff Cody Brocious, who publicized a flaw in lock-maker Onity's systems earlier this year. It relies on the fact that the locks have very little security on ...