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 ...

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 ...

There's a device out there that can take any Master combination lock and open it in a few seconds — so if your life savings are secured by one of these venerable padlocks, you might want to grab ...

Look, we all know that Master combo locks, which go for $4 a pop, are not paragons of security. But damn, this looks easy. In a new video, hacker Samy Kamkar demonstrates a dead simple trick that he ...

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 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 ...

Careful what you leave in your lockers, high school students and gym-goers. An invasion of 3-D printed robots may be coming, capable of popping one of the world's most ubiquitous brands of combination ...