There’s a vulnerability in Master Lock branded padlocks that allows anyone to learn the combination in eight or fewer tries, a process that requires less than two minutes and a minimal amount of skill ...

Padlocks are one of those everyday objects that seem ripe for the Internet of Things treatment, so it's no surprise that Master Lock has given its new line an intelligence boosting upgrade. Aimed at ...

Forgot your Master lock combo? Or want some incentive to not use a Master padlock? There’s a website for that. The video above from Samy Kamar shows how you can crack any Master combination lock ...

Last week, an interesting story made the rounds on social media about a researcher named Samy Kamkar who discovered a flaw in Master-brand combination locks and was able to open the lock in eight ...

Yesterday, our own Dan Goodin covered a clever new hack that uses a bit of calculation to reduce a well-known Master Lock exploit from 100 maximum attempts to just eight. Today, we put the hack to the ...

Padlocks are portable locking devices that we all learned about as kids to secure our school lockers, bikes, and other valuables. They come in an infinite number of configurations and are controlled ...