Passport RFIDs Cloned With COTS Hardware
The Register’s Dan Goodin reports of the successful RFID cloning activity by a respected information security researcher Chris Paget. A short video, as well as a snippet appears after the jump. Read it and weep…
From The Register’s Dan Goodin: “Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree”
“Using inexpensive off-the-shelf components, an information security expert has built a mobile platform that can clone large numbers of the unique electronic identifiers used in US passport cards and next generation drivers licenses. The $250 proof-of-concept device – which researcher Chris Paget built in his spare time – operates out of his vehicle and contains everything needed to sniff and then clone RFID, or radio frequency identification, tags. During a recent 20-minute drive in downtown San Francisco, it successfully copied the RFID tags of two passport cards without the knowledge of their owners…”
- Technology for Government Ok, Not for Citizens (mymediamusings.com)
- Video: Hacker war drives San Francisco cloning RFID passports (engadget.com)
- RFID Wardriving for Fun and Profit (geeksaresexy.net)
- RFID passport cards vulnerable to snooping (infoworld.com)
- Passport RFIDs cloned wholesale by $250 eBay auction spree (Dan Goodin/The Register) (techmeme.com)
- Researchers hack US RFID passports (vnunet.com)
- Biz travelers howl over US gov RFIDs (theregister.co.uk)
- RFID deployment moving forward despite security flaws (arstechnica.com)
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Feb 5th, 2009 at 12:49
Passport RFIDs Cloned With COTS Hardware – http://infosecurity.us/?p=5959