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In the news today “master key” hack for hotel room card key
Researchers at F-Secure, a Finnish cyber security company, said hotel rooms in over 160 countries and at 40,000 locations are at risk of being opened by hackers who have gained access to an electronic key company’s software.
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Fortune reports Swedish lock manufacturer Assa Abloy uses a software that has a vulnerability. According to Gizmodo, the vulnerability in the Vision software allows criminals to create master keys and open any door in the building. All the hackers need is a single hotel key and a radio-frequency identification card.
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.
Fortune reports there are no known cases of hackers exploiting the flaw in the software. However, a software patch has reportedly been developed, and affected hotels are being urged to update the software for their key card readers, Fortune reports.
http://www.kcra.com/article/master-key-hack-could-put-millions-of-hotel-rooms-at-risk-report-says/20074195