The next time you stay in a hotel room, run your fingers under the keycard lock outside your door. If you find a DC power port there, take note: With a few hacker tricks and a handful of cheap hardware, that tiny round hole might offer access to your room just as completely as your keycard.. At the Black Hat security conference Tuesday evening, a Mozilla software developer and 24-year old security researcher named Cody Brocious plans to present a pair of vulnerabilities he The link for this article located at Forbes is no longer available. . Hotel keycard systems, while handy, can expose guests to risks due to vulnerabilities in magnetic stripe technology and poor verification practices, affecting security. Hotel Keycard Security, Hardware Vulnerabilities, Access Breach Techniques. . LinuxSecurity.com Team
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