British security researchers have found VISA wireless payments vulnerability-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, UK Newcastle University, security researcher in the VISA contactless payment card, found a security vulnerability, exploit the vulnerability the attacker is simply using the phone from someone else's wallet to steal large amounts of cash. Contactless payment card using the encryption ch...

Hackers Can Steal $999,999.99 from Visa Contactless Payment Cards

Security researchers from Newcastle University in the UK have found a way to steal larger amounts of money from people's pockets using just a mobile phone, due to a security glitch Visa’s contactless payment cards. Contactless payment cards use a cryptoprocessor and RFID technology to perform...

NXP Semiconductors MIFARE Classic Smartcard - Multiple Security Weaknesses

No description provided by source. source: http://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 attacker...

Intel Developing RFID Tracking and Remote Controlled 'Kill Switch' for Laptops

Kill Switch - the ability to render devices non-operational to prevent theft - has become a hot topic nowadays. The ability to remotely destroy data of the device lost or stolen has been available for quite some time now, but Kill switch not only remotely destroy the devices’ data but also the...

Flaws Found in USCIS RFID Card Production System

The system that’s used to produce RFID-enabled identification cards–including permanent resident IDs–by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Service has a number of serious security issues, according to a new report from the Office of the Inspector General at DHS. Among the issues the OI...

SKIDATA RFID Freemotion.Gate code execution

Code execution via TCP/7777 web interface...

Long range RFID hacking tool to be released at Black Hat

Out of necessity come many interesting inventions. Fran Brown, a year ago, was working a penetration test for an electric utility doing an assessment of its SCADA network. His first challenge was to get inside the facility, meaning, in short that he had to break in. To do so, he decided to test t...

Judge Rules Against Texas Teen Who Refused to Wear SmartID Badge

In a closely watched case, a federal judge today ruled against a high school sophomore who refused to wear a student ID embedded with a radio frequency chip that tracks students’ movement on campus. The teenager, Andrea Hernandez, and her father, Steven Hernandez, sued a San Antonio school distri...

Bugtraq-II Beta 32 bits Release

Features Bugtraq system offers the most comprehensive distribution, optimal, and stable with automated services manager in real time. This distribution based on the 3.2 and 3.4 kernel PAE has a huge range of penetration, forensic and laboratory tools. Bugtraq is available with XFCE, Gnome and KDE...

German Researchers Break RFID Smartcard Encryption

German Researchers Break RFID Smartcard Encryption Scientists have found a way to circumvent the encryption used to protect a smartcard used to restrict access to buildings and to process public transit system payments. A team of German scientists have demonstrated a hack that lets them make a...

German Researchers Break RFID Smartcard Encryption

German Researchers Break RFID Smartcard Encryption Scientists have found a way to circumvent the encryption used to protect a smartcard used to restrict access to buildings and to process public transit system payments. A team of German scientists have demonstrated a hack that lets them make a...

U.S. Playing Catch Up in Security for Contactless Devices

AMHERST, MASS.– The U.S. may boast the world’s largest economy, richest technology companies and a lion’s share of its top research universities. But when it comes to the subject of security of RFID Radio Frequency ID and other contactless technologies, America is still playing catch-up. The U.S....

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...