Smart locks have certainly elevated the way we enter our homes. But while smart locks and other smart home devices can make your home more secure and offer some level of convenience, they're not ...

My buddy bought a combination padlock at a garage sale. It was made by Master Lock, and was the model with the stainless-steel case with a black dial and white numbers ranging from 0 to 39. The ...

Executives at Master Lock can’t be happy with some of the videos that have gone viral on YouTube this year. Earlier this year, I wrote about a viral video that showed you how to crack almost any ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

If you buy through a BGR link, we may earn an affiliate commission, helping support our expert product labs. Executives at Master Lock can’t be happy with some of the videos that have gone viral on ...