But other hackers have since refined Brocious's work, tweaking and perfecting his tool and posting YouTube videos of themselves reliably opening Onity locks on hotel room doors.

Electronic lock manufacturer Onity has finally agreed to reimburse its customers—major hotel chains like Marriott, Hyatt, and InterContinental (IHG)—for some of the costs of replacing its ...

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 ...

At the Black Hat Las Vegas security conference in July, Cody Brocious showed how “stupidly simple” it was to exploit Onity keycard-protected hotel rooms and that the lockpicking for ...