The inconspicuous lock hacking device is an adaption of one demonstrated at the Black Hat security conference in July by Cody Brocious, a hacker and software developer for Mozilla, who discovered and exploited a vulnerability in Onity locks, a cheap and popular hotel room lock that the company says are used on at least four million hotel rooms worldwide.
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Europe has approximately 5.45 million hotel rooms, which represents almost half of the world total.
Four month ago, Cody Brocious demonstrated it was possible to break into any of four million hotel rooms around the world in seconds.
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However not all 8.1 million hotel bookings are incremental.
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We have 5 million hotel rooms, they have 140, 000.
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Each day the newspaper is delivered to 1 million hotel rooms in the U.S. For a customer at a trade show, hundreds of issues were wrapped with "belly bands" (a branded ribbon of paper encircling each newspaper).
But White Lodging, the Hyatt franchisee that manages the Houston hotel, believes that the rooms were opened using a device that takes advantage of a glaring security vulnerability in keycard locks built by the lock company Onity, specifically a model of lock that appears in at least four million hotel rooms worldwide.
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In 2010 the family earmarked 36 acres for The Trees, a mixed-use project of office, retail and residential spaces, plus a five-star hotel, covering 2.8 million square feet.
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On 31 December, the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Putian opened in Putian, China, the first international hotel brand in this city of three million in Fujian Province.
The cosy, historic 65-room St Regis hotel underwent a major, 12-million Canadian dollar renovation in 2008 and re-emerged as a business traveller favourite, with marble bathroom finishes and walls sheathed in rich, pale blue leather.
The 148-room hotel that opened this month cost more than 100 million yuan and covers 6, 000sqm of the aircraft carrier.
The Jakarta that I once knew has grown into a teeming city of nearly 10 million, with skyscrapers that dwarf the Hotel Indonesia, and thriving centers of culture and of commerce.
In 1989, Adelson bought the old Sands Hotel from Kerkorian for a hundred and twenty-eight million dollars, and established a new company, Las Vegas Sands.
In January, after a 48-million-euro redo, the 63-room Hotel Sans Souci will open near the Museums Quartier in a hotel building dating back to 1873.
For starters: 3, 500 Lego models fashioned from over 3 million of the Danish bricks, throughout the 250-room hotel.
Mr. Lichter, president of Industrial Realty Group LLC, is planning to convert the 1.7 million-square-foot hodgepodge of brick and concrete buildings into hotel rooms, housing, modern office space and other uses.
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That finally happened when the Jerome reopened this past December after being closed four months for a many-million-dollar top-to-bottom renovation. (The hotel declines to say exactly how many millions.) The architects, designers, and historians nailed it.
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Its search application, which allows users to call a restaurant or hotel directly from the search results or text the location to a friend, has been downloaded 1.5 million times so far and will soon carry ads served from its own ad network.
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