Hackers cause hotel to ditch keycards for old-school keys and locks

Earlier this month, staff at Austria's four-star Romantik Seehotel Jägerwirt tried to sign into the resort's computer systems, but couldn't. 

They had been infected by a kind of software called ransomware. 

When hackers deploy the tech, it encrypts a device, rendering it useless. Once a ransom is paid, the hackers then deliver an electronic "decryption key" which can be used to restore the device to normal. 

Unless the hotel paid a ransom in Bitcoin totaling close to $1,800 dollars, it wouldn't be able to access its reservation system, cash desk system or issue electronic keycards.  Read more...