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 ...

I wonder why Master updated its early 2000s design. Is there a known attack against it? I recall that very old (90s or older) locks were easy to break by listening for clicks while turning the dial.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A few weeks ago, renowned security expert / hacker / entrepreneur Samy Kamkar detailed a method that can be used to crack any Master Combination Lock by hand in just eight tries or less. Now, he's ...