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 ...

“Master Lock, not so much,” said Johnson, 56, who hails from Fairfax County, Virginia. “You get what you pay for,” he warned, conceding that some of the company’s higher-end locks work well.

Forgot your Master lock combo? Or want some incentive to not use a Master padlock? There’s a website for that. The video above from Samy Kamar shows how you can crack any Master combination lock ...

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 ...

This description doesn't do Kamkar's video justice, however. To get a better idea of how this trick works, watch the whole thing below. Break open any Master Combo Lock in 8 tries or less!

Look, we all know that Master combo locks, which go for $4 a pop, are not paragons of security. But damn, this looks easy. In a new video, hacker Samy Kamkar demonstrates a dead simple trick that ...

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 ...

A TikToker is alleging Master Lock locks are not the master protectors they claim to be. After seeing a TikTok about scams that have become normalized, TikToker and lock picker Trevor ...