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SALEM, Va. - After years of focusing on the commercial lock market, Medeco has entered the residential market with expectations residential lock sales will surpass its commercial business in 10 years.

Like the locks they make, the exterior of Medeco's Salem plant gives away little about the mechanisms working inside. Medeco puts out 6 million locks a year, a worldwide leader in security, with ...

There are millions of Medeco deadbolt systems in place worldwide. Between Medeco's reputation for quality and engineering excellence and their high security ratings by UL, BHMA / ANSI and other ...

Marc Weber Tobias and two colleagues discovered that they could create plastic keys to open Medeco's M3 high-security locks, despite key control measures designed to thwart key duplication. Photo: ...

NEXGEN XT is the latest addition to Medeco's Smart SFIC Solutions product lineup, allowing facilities that utilize small format interchangeable core (SFIC) cylinders to quickly... Medeco Security ...

Salem, VA, May 16, 2006 - Medeco's newest switch lock brings patented key control and UL listed security to gates, alarms, control panels, and electrically operated equipment. While most ordinary keys ...

High-security lock manufacturer Medeco says it's planning a design change to counter one of two attacks against its products that were described at the DefCon hacking conference over the weekend, ...

ASSA ABLOY, a manufacturer of access control solutions, introduces Medeco 4 (M4), a high-security key technology that is said to offer protection against physical attack and unauthorized key ...

Despite, Hack a Day seeming to be fairly lock heavy lately, we’ve yet to cover a major story from The Last HOPE. At the conference, [Jon King] talked about vulnerabilities in Medeco locks and ...

An electronic home-security system is the single most effective way to deter a potential intruder. But it’s expensive, with some costing upward of $3,000 just for hardware and installation. Though not ...