Merlin, Guardian and Dominator Remotes - replace - copy - reprogram - supply. Ph 0800 502 340 Here at Eastern Bays Mobile Locksmiths we will come to your place and replace that worn or lost garage door remote Garage Door Remotes / openers and Garage Door Closers can get worn and need to be replaced. We can provide a new remote. if your remote has been lost or stolen we can supply a new remote with a new code. Your lost stolen remote will not work. We can come to you or by arrangement you can come to our workshop. Eastern Bays Mobile Locksmith is registered with the Department of Justice. The company is a member of both the MLAA and NZLA Associations. Principal Locksmith Dave has over 25 yrs experience in the Locksmith Industry Servicing Auckland and out lying areas. Call us now for a quote on your next Garage Door Remote Friendly honest service - Dave 021 951 340 If you have had your remote stolen check with your insurance company it may be covered under your insurance policy
Monday - Friday8 - 5pm Saturday 8 - 1.30pm After Hours by appointmentGarage door security is very important, especially if it is attached to your residence. Nothing is more important than safety so we have several ways for you to protect your residence, family and belongings.Besides being a place to store your vehicle and other belongings, your garage can provide easy access to your home for a potential criminal. This may not be a well known fact but your garage door remote can be copied or cloned by anyone. The security of your garage door has been compromised in recent years because technology has allowed criminals to obtain the codes they need to reprogram your garage door remote.To help prevent a break-in through your garage, always be sure to lock the access door from your garage to your home. If another person has cloned your garage door remote and the door to your house is unlocked then there is nothing stopping them from entering your home. Your garage access door should be of a sturdy material, such as hardwood or metal, and should have a deadbolt lock.
An additional way to prevent break-ins is to change the code of your garage door remote periodically. Changing the garage door remote code is easy and can provide additional security for your family and your residence.In addition to keeping your home secure, it is also important to keep your vehicle secure. After exiting your vehicle make sure that the doors are locked. In the event that someone has cloned your garage door opener, they can enter your garage and steal your car.You also want to make sure that you keep your garage door remote from being stolen out of your vehicle. If your garage remote is in your car be sure to keep it where it can not be seen and lock your doors.Convenience and the Internet of Things Convenience will continue to drive companies that lack information security expertise to build IoT devices, and consumers to buy them. The results could be disastrous. Take your garage door opener, for example. Most remote garage door openers use a rolling code system.
This is a system which is designed to change the code every time it is used, so that if a burglar with a recording device picks up your wirelessly transmitted code when you open the garage, it can’t be used at a later time to open your garage door because the code will have changed by then. Obviously, both the remote control and the door opener have to change their codes at the same time, so a syncing process has to exist for this to happen. There are plenty of ways for a would-be burglar to get around this system. Replacement remote controls are easily available. Over the past decade, several researchers have developed methods to derive rolling code keys given access to a working remote control. The reason this doesn’t happen more often is that it takes some technical skill to do this, and most burglars are lacking in the technical skill department (otherwise they wouldn’t be burglars). Virtually all burglars find it easier to break a window, force a door open, or pick a lock than delve into the IT world.
Nowadays you can have your garage door opener connected to the internet, so that it becomes part of the internet of things (IoT). You can arrange for it to give you a warning via your cell phone if you have accidentally left your door open, for example. However, since this also means that your door opener code information is likely to be stored somewhere on the internet, it also opens the possibility for rolling code syncing data to be stolen on a grand scale. Burglars would presumably be able to purchase these codes on a retail basis and then spend a happy, productive morning driving around, opening garage doors at will. Converting anything to internet-accessible data always increases the risk of theft, simply because the stakes become much higher. Twenty years ago and more, a credit card transaction usually meant that a merchant took a physical impression of your card (that’s why your cards still have raised, embossed numbers), filled in the amount by hand and sent it to the bank.
Making a copy of someone’s card by stealing discarded card impressions was quite easy, but it was a relatively laborious process so card fraud was never much more than a mom-and-pop business. Then they made the whole process electronic, with the result that vast quantities of card data were stored on merchants’ computer systems. Breaking into those systems meant that you could walk off with huge amounts of valuable data. Remember the Target Stores heist in Dec 2013 – 40 million sets of card data stolen? So now we have the possibility of huge amounts of garage door opener codes being stored in an internet-accessible location. It’s not beyond the bounds of possibility that someone could hack into this data and make off with it, and then in a few weeks you might find that your door opener codes are available, for a price, via a shadowy website somewhere in Eastern Europe, let’s say. This is an outline of the problem. I’ll look at potential solutions to it in a later post.