Experts Converge at RFIDsec to Discuss NFC Security Implications

RFID security problems have been biting at the ankles of users and companies that deploy the technology for several years now, but they’ve been mostly on the fringes of mainstream security concerns. But now, as the technology becomes more widespread and pervasive, that is beginning to change...

Android NFC Bug Could Be First Of Many

Google is working on a fix for a newly discovered vulnerability affecting Nexus S Android phones that could cause applications on the phone to crash using incorrectly formated Near Field Communications NFC transactions. The issue, which will be discussed at an upcoming technical conference on...

Researcher to Show Off GSM Intercept Attack at Defcon

At the Defcon conference later this week, Chris Paget, a well-known security researcher who focuses on wireless and RFID issues, will give a demonstration of a technique that enables him to intercept calls made on GSM wireless handsets without any interaction with the user’s handset. The techniqu...

Alien Technology ALR-9900 Default Passwords

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tested: www.alientechnology.com/readers/alr9900.php Background: Alien Technology is a major rfid-reader designer and manufacturer. Alien's products are sold to many corporations and the military. Alien's readers can be interfaced with in several ways...

Alien Technology ALR-9900 RFID-reader backdoor

There are undocumented remote access methods with undocumented default accounts...

AlienTechnology ALR-9900 default root password and backdoor

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Tested: www.alientechnology.com/readers/alr9900.php Background: Alien Technology is a major rfid-reader designer and manufacturer. Alien's products are sold to many corporations and the military. Alien's readers can be interfaced with in several ways...

Researchers Block Cloning of Passive RFID

Engineering researchers at the University of Arkansas have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique physical attributes of individual tags rather than information stored on them, will preven...

NXP Semiconductors MIFARE Classic Smartcard - Multiple Vulnerabilities

source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31853/info MIFARE Classic is prone to multiple security weaknesses: 1. A security weakness may allow attackers to recover the internal state of the linear feedback shift register. 2. A security weakness may allow attackers to recover the previous state of...

NXP Semiconductors MIFARE Classic Smartcard - Multiple Vulnerabilities

NXP Semiconductors MIFARE Classic Smartcard - Multiple Vulnerabilities source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/31853/info MIFARE Classic is prone to multiple security weaknesses: 1. A security weakness may allow attackers to recover the internal state of the linear feedback shift register. 2. A...