This Hacked Kids' Toy Opens Garage Doors in Seconds. Security researcher Samy Kamkar can crack some garages' laughable safeguard codes in seconds, with little more than a hacked child’s toy.

At first blush, a hacked toy like this could brute force a garage door in about 30 minutes. But thanks to a series of tricks Kamkar discovered to make the process more efficient, that number can ...

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Do you value what’s in your garage? Then you’d better make sure your garage door opener uses a secure wireless system, because it is frightfully easy to hack the more basic ones.

Garage doors may be vulnerable to being opened remotely by hackers using little more than a children's toy, a security researcher has proven this week. Kyle Ellison 05 Jun 2015 • , 1 min. read ...

With a fixed-code garage door opener, the remote control, or “clicker” always transmits the same 8 to 12-bit binary code. For a 12-bit code, there are 4,096 possible combinations—strings of ...

Security researcher Samy Kamkar has developed a new technique that enables him to open almost any garage door that uses a fixed code–and he implemented it on a $12 child’s toy. It may be time ...

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You need to open the door just wide enough to get out but not so wide that you end up smacking against the walls of your garage, another car parked next to you, or some other sturdy, inanimate object.