The baffling brain teaser, shared on Instagram’s Threads, asks people to ‘crack the password’ of a lock using a few hints. How quickly can you unlock it?

Security researcher Samy Kamkar developed a web app that can help you crack Master Lock’s ubiquitous padlock in a matter of minutes. Fiddling with your lock as described in this video gives you ...

Via Ars Technica, hacker Samy Kamkar this week posted a video that shows how you can crack the code of a Master Lock combination in eight tries or fewer.

Long, long ago we covered a method to crack a Master lock in about 30 minutes or less. Here’s a revival of the same method but now the instructions to retrieve the combination are in info-gra… ...

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 ...

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 ...

For now, Kamkar has shared only the basics of his method, but he also cut open a lock to see the vulnerability in action, and actually created a little robot that will power-crack Master Locks ...

Imagine a number lock with a three-digit code, and you're given five clues to crack it open. First, one digit is in the correct spot. Second, one digit is right, but it's in the wrong place.