Many of the deadbolt locks tested by Consumer Reports lack the level of protection you might want or expect. In our labs, a few well-placed kicks or a couple of minutes under assault from a cordless ...

Mechanical locks secure doors as either deadbolts or door-handle devices. Keys serve as the means to unlock these mechanical locks, and possessing a working key determines who can access secured areas ...

Quick question: do you know where your car keys are? How about your house keys or your work ID badge? Every week, one in four American adults lose their keys. They spend upwards of 15 minutes trying ...

Prison chiefs have been forced to spend tens of thousands of pounds replacing all the locks at a jail housing murderers, armed robbers and rapists after warders found a copy of a master key inside a ...

Most of us at one time or another has lost our keys and know the stress that it causes. Compounding things is the cost that comes with calling out a locksmith to replace all the locks on the windows ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Hotel door locks can be compromised by simple tweaks to their in-built security software, ...

Maintaining a truly smart home takes more than simply connecting to a digital assistant and a voice-activated speaker. Smart locks—or smart deadbolts, more accurately—streamline your daily routine and ...