If you use a Master combination lock at the gym, you might need to reconsider it after reading this post. Because if other gym-goers are also reading this, your belongings may not be as secure as you ...

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 ...

Hacker discovers how to crack any Master Lock combination in minutes A well-known hacker has discovered a way to crack the combination of any Master Lock padlock in less than two minutes, using less ...

Forget the combination to your combo lock? Well if you’ve got a 3D printer, an Arduino, a servo and a stepper motor handy — you can build your own Combo Breaker pretty easily. It’s capable of solving ...

We mostly think of hackers as people who use their knowledge of coding to virtually break into computer systems. It turns out, however, that hackers can be pretty good at breaking into physical locks ...

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Two years ago we highlighted how to crack a Master combination padlock for those of you who may have lost the combination to your bulletproof lock; now designer Mark Campos has turned the ...

A hacker, known for unleashing a worm on the once-popular MySpace social network, said he has devised a technique to crack under two minutes any combination by Master Lock, a padlock company owned by ...

It might be time to ditch the combination locks and put your valuables behind a good old-fashioned lock and key. A hacker has built a device that can crack a combination lock in as little as 30 ...

A common trope in bank heist B-movies is someone effortlessly bypassing a safe’s combination lock. Typically, the hero or villain will turn the dial while listening to the internal machinery, then ...