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News, from the weekend: High Security Lock mavens Marc Weber Tobias, Matt Fiddler and Toby Bluzmanis have bested earlier accomplishments with the Medeco branded lock pick and bump cracks, this time with CLiQ electro-mechanical locksets. All from this years’ DefCon. More information, including a short snippet of the Wired post, with links, appears after the jump.

From Wired.com’s Kim Zetter via the ThreatLevel blog: “Electronic High-Security Locks Easily Defeated at DefCon“

“LAS VEGAS — World-renowned lock experts Marc Weber Tobias, Toby Bluzmanis and Matt Fiddler are at it again.The three, who have made numerous headlines for bumping and picking Medeco high-security locks and other brands, have now succeeded to crack state-of-the-art, CLIQ technology electro-mechanical high-security locks. They showed Threat Level how they could easily bypass the electronic portion of the locks and thwart audit logs that track who opens a lock and when. They provided the demonstration in advance of a presentation they’re giving at the DefCon hacker conference here on Sunday, with the caveat that Threat Level not disclose certain details about how they defeated the locks. (View edited video on Tobias’ web site.)…”

• Unlocking the “uncrackable” Medeco Deadbolt (crunchgear.com)
• How The Lock Industry Put Its Head In The Sand, Rather Than Deal With Vulnerabilities To Locks (techdirt.com)
• You: Profile of the lock-hacker who bumped the “unbumpable” Medeco lock (boingboing.net)
• The Ultimate Lock Picker Hacks Pentagon, Beats Corporate Security for Fun and Profit (wired.com)