Onity Door Lock Hack
At the black hat security conference yesterday a hacker named cody brocious a mozilla software developer demonstrated how someone could gain instant untraceable access to millions of hotel rooms protected by key card locks made by onity.
Onity door lock hack. How the onity lock system is designed. Six years ago by contrast a security researcher published the code necessary to exploit a glaring vulnerability in widely used onity keycard locks on the web. We hope to reveal unique insight into the way the onity ht system works and detail various vulnerabilities therein. Approximately ten million onity ht locks are installed in hotels worldwide.
It reinforced the warning sound by cody brocious when he presented the exploitat. This accounts for over half of all the installed hotel locks and can be found in approximately a third of all hotels. Inspired by the james bond type setup we saw on the spiderlabs blog post we thought we de try to build a small simple and tsa friendly version of the onity key unlocker. A black hat hacker has unveiled a method that allows a fairly simple hardware gadget to unlock door locks manufactured by onity.
Why 100 s of thousands of tourists are vulnerable to theft of worse. Mozilla software developer cody brocious recently discovered two. It takes approximately 200 milliseconds from the time an attacker plugs the device in until the. Providers of software and systems that meet the needs of hotel operators for security energy conservation management solutions and guestroom comfort.
The device he holds in his hand is an arduino connected to the outside portion of the door lock. Every single onity key card lock has a dc power socket on the base.