TULSA, OK -- If you think your home is secure, just because you lock the door, think again. Criminals can get past 90 percent of all locks with a simple technique called lock bumping. It leaves ...

Chances are, your home’s front door is vulnerable to a crime that can be accomplished by a novice: lock-bumping. With a specially cut “bump key” and the well-timed whack of a hammer, someone can ...

Noted security expert Marc Weber Tobias contributes a new column, The Lockdown, exposing the shoddy security you may depend on. The Bump Key: A new old threat to the security of mechanical locks The ...

The keys are increasingly being used in burglaries across the country. — -- It used to be that only locksmiths used bump keys -– a modified key that can be used to open many kinds of locks –- but ...

One of the hairier unintended consequences of cheap 3-D printing is that any troublemaker can duplicate a key without setting foot in a hardware store. But clever lockpickers like Jos Weyers and ...

A skeleton key, one that can open any lock, is normally something confined to the realms of films and television. But two engineers claim to have devised a 3D printed ‘bump key’ that, with a bit of ...

Noted security expert Marc Weber Tobias contributes a new column, The Lockdown, exposing the shoddy security you may depend on. Locks that are not at risk In yesterday's column, I set up key bumping - ...