Elvis Comes Back from Dead to Prove RFID Passports Lack Security

Hackers have discovered techniques to make backups of RFID passports as well as bypass ePassport RFID authentication at airport passport scanners. Their method, which is publicly available, includes software to design custom identities and convinces scanners to accept fully fabricated RFID chips—neither of which trigger any sort of alarm [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 10:28:14

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HOW TO - Back up a RFID passport (or just become Elvis)

It Portal Pic 106377 vonJeek/THC released a tool and a video how to duplicate (clone) and modify a RFID passport, wow! Via / ... a RFID reader/capturer/cloner - code & schematics for Jonathan Westhues' Proxmark 3 RFID test device is now available. The device allows you to read, capture, and replay/clone transmissions from an RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 13:40:19

Monopoly supplier rips off British public with 93-97% markup

The irrepressible BoingBoing blog has a story about the rank insecurity and grotesque 85% markup on US RFID passports: You know those new, super-secure, RFID-enabled passports the US is issuing to its citizens? They’re manufactured ... a tiny wire antenna when it is scanned electronically at border entry points and compared [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 07:15:00

RFID Passports: Are They Secure?

Need even more proof that RFID doesn’t improve security? According to a group of hackers who bypassed an ePassport RFID authentication at an Amsterdam airport, RFID passports aren’t as secure as people think. Using software to design custom identities [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 02:35:48

Improvised RFID Blocking Wallets: Preventing PayPass Skimming

Many credit card users do not realize that they have PayPass enabled RFID credit cards in addition to the new RFID enabled US Passports ... Omnikey Cardman 5321, a USB connected RFID reader, and using Adam Laurie's RFIDIOt package. Longer ... . These RFID enabled devices are easily read at distances compatible with casual contact [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 22:30:00

For the Paranoid in Your Life

drive.jpg A USB Flash Drive disguised as broken cable. 2GB of extra security at least until the TSA puts it on the watch list. (Via Schneier) Or consider the (likely more useful) RFID Blocking Wallet and the RFID Blocking Passport Billfold. Did you know that there are people out there who specially target paranoids? Update: pointers [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 14:43:59

Researchers Find Problems With RFID Passport Cards

By Stephen Lawson Network World | RFID tags used in two new types of border-crossing documents in the U.S ... of Washington contain RFID tags that can be scanned at border crossings without being handed over ... are in the works. The information in these tags could be copied on to another, off-the-shelf tag, which [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 10:21:36

Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #246

RFID’s Security Problem Are U.S. passport cards and new state driver’s licenses with RFID truly secure? ... goes mobile Going online from a personal computer to access government services has been commonplace ... of those same services are available through your cellphone. In Singapore, text messages are used [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 12:00:58

Elvis is not dead

And he's hacking RFID passport scanners.Watch videoHackers have released a source code that allows the 'backup' of RFID-protected passports, ... being approved by a security scanner at a Dutch airport. When the reader scans the passport [more...]

Date: 2008-10-05 21:07:00

US Rolls Out 'Vicinity RFID' To Check IDs In Moving Vehicles

By John Lettice The Register | RFID technology that allows the remote identification of travellers in moving vehicles is being rolled out at ... are beginning to issue Enhanced Driver's Licence/ID cards (EDL/ID), which have the PASSport RFID functionality ... land and sea ports. Using "Vicinity RFID" it can read the cards from a healthy skimming [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 02:56:30

US rolls out 'Vicinity RFID' to check IDs in moving vehicles

RFID technology that allows the remote identification of travellers in moving vehicles is being rolled out at US land border crossings this month ... Licence/ID cards (EDL/ID), which have the PASSport RFID functionality added to a standard driver's ... RFID" it can read the cards from a healthy skimming distance of 20-30 feet, but according [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 01:51:43

RFID Sewn In

We’ve started to see the introduction of RFID to track things like store inventory, travelers in airports and passport holders - and next, ... a trackable RFID tag that can be sewn into garments and withstand washing machines and ironing. We’re ... you wonder how connected our clothes will be in the future. RFID Journal reports: Another of RFID Lab’ [more...]

Date: 2008-08-14 15:02:36

Links for 8th August 2008

Stross on the difference between US and UK sf; emergent AI in canine form; ePassports hacked like a cheap padlock; ... his own software, a publicly available programming code, a £40 card reader and two £10 RFID chips ... Can and Will Be Hacked. Tagged with: UK • passport • cloning • identity • theft • RFID • hack • cryptography • biometric [more...]

Date: 2008-08-09 00:00:22

Mexico December 2008 - Part Five

As you can imagine, this is always the saddest part! ... me again totally and verified my fingerprints with my RFID passport. There I had to stay about 8 hours ... , so I decided to register me at the airport wireless network service called “Boingo“. It costs me 7,95USD [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 20:31:12

25c3: The future is already here - it is just unevenly distributed

25C3: Nothing to hide 25th Chaos Communication Congress December 27th to 30th, 2008 bcc Berliner Congress Center, Berlin, Germany This year, ... enables us to identify devices from same manufacturing run. Watch RF fingerprinting of RFID to find out how that works for 802.11 devices and RFID passports. While we are on security topics [more...]

Date: 2009-01-04 21:30:32

Arphid Watch: RFIDs in American passports inserted by foreign contractors

(((I'm no big fan of the Moonie Times, but these allegations sound distinctly weird. A passport factory in Thailand? Can such things be?))) ... of Bangkok, to be fitted with a wire Radio Frequency Identification, or RFID, antenna. The blank ... and is transmitted through a tiny wire antenna when it is scanned electronically at border entry points [more...]

Date: 2008-10-22 18:15:47

RFID: Convenience or obedience?

Printed in The Boar 7/8/08 An emerging technology is expected to make a “pervasive impact on every aspect of civilization” in the same way the ... at the end of this sentence. The second is an antenna or “transponder”, typically a flat, metallic ... society. That technology is RFID. If you renewed your passport in the last few years, check the back [more...]

Date: 2008-10-18 11:48:36

Chains of trust, questionable origins

If I wanted to print US Dollars at home, I’d need the printing equipment, the paper stock on which to do it, and the magical ink ... in the case of identification systems: passports and REAL ID driver’s licenses. Consider this article from the Washington Times.  The raw materials to make a new RFID passport, namely, the blank [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 13:47:54

ID Cards can endanger your life.

Whilst terrorism is in itself heinous, the fact that they were looking for certain nationals is very worrying, and if ever there was a reason why a British national should never, ever carry an RFID enabled Passport or ID Card around with them, this has to be it. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 23:13:53

Taspo rules bring retail back to tobacco

Last summer, the Japanese tobacco industry imposed a rather large burden on itself by requiring the use of Taspo (tobacco passport), an RFID identification and payment card, for adults to purchase tobacco from vending machines ... campaigns, free gifts, and other benefits are simple with small retail spaces. Of course [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 04:54:35

More Shoddy RFID in US Driver’s Licenses

If you live in one of the border states to Canada or Mexico and think it would be great to get a new, high-tech driver’s license, ... (RFID) tags that can be read right through a wallet, pocket or purse from as far away as 30 feet. Each ... , clothing, phones and even groceries. Despite assurances that RFID tagged licenses and passports [more...]

Date: 2008-10-10 12:18:58

Infuriating, but unsurprising

I've been talking about RFID as a security risk for a long time now.. ... to NOT have this "feature"....So I have an RFID blocking wallet, and passport folio.Labels: Geek, Money, Mythbusting ... . Now, my card companies have sent me two cards that have RFID tags in them, without my requesting [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 01:05:00

Useful Travel Accessories For Your Vacation And Business Travel

by Dorothy Yamich If you would like to find out about some of the travel accessories that are available to make your trip more comfortable, easier, ... . Another unique accessory is the RFID blocking passport ... packing. What is a non-slip security wallet and how does it work? One accessory you should consider [more...]

Date: 2008-09-29 13:32:35

Researchers Reveal Security, Privacy Vulnerabilities in ‘Enhanced’ Driver’s Licenses

Researchers Reveal Security, Privacy Vulnerabilities in ‘Enhanced’ Driver’s Licenses November 4th, ... , it is a technically straightforward matter to copy the data from a Passport Card’s RFID tag into another, off ... an individual’s citizenship status. They are also equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 09:12:38

Delivering an Effective Backup and Recovery Service whitepaper

Delivering an Effective Backup and Recovery Service Rapid data growth and the need for greater data availability place a demand on organisations ... this approach is. This white paper helps organisations make the right decisions about how best ... Advisor news Google advertising deal blocked by Russia Passport RFID tags open to snooping Intel, IBM [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 17:13:17

What you need to know about protecting your personal information, and how the new enhanced drivers licence can put you at risk

In an age where we are constantly having to adjust to new technologies that are often touted as “time saving” and “convenient”, ... up for the right to try it out.  A reader emailed a link to a recent story detailing the risks ... of having a passport. The licences contain an RFID chip- radio frequency identification technology [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 16:27:57

ORG 3rd Birthday

The UK Open Rights Group has now been around for 3 years, and they have released their 2008 Review of Activities ... . Surveillance, ID cards, RFID passports, all are being touted as necessary to keep us secure. But when it’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 19:09:44

Money: the root of all evil

Money is indeed the root of all evil! It can corrupt the best of us ... ://eutilitariancommons.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/the-impotent-politician/ RFIDs in passports and I.D. cards are one step ... to Revelation’s ‘Mark of the Beast’ - when nobody will be able to buy or sell without the RFID chip [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 20:40:27

A New Year, An Old Story

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The January/February 2009 issue of Technology Review, ... s analysis of the NXP Mifare Classic, an RFID chip used in fare cards for the public-transit systems” ... Published by MIT included this article - RFID’s Security Problem: Are U.S. passport cards and new [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 21:09:37

Arphid Watch: Amsterdam, arphids and Elvis

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081002-rfid-passport-hack-has-scanners-seeing-visions-of-elvis (((In a word, "huh? ... RFID behavior, apparently written by van Beek, is uploaded onto a blank card. Using a free Python ... cheese. The sleep of reason brings forth Elvis.))) Link: RFID passport hack has scanner seeing [more...]

Date: 2008-10-02 22:25:52

Passports....

Mom and I have to renew our US Passports soon, before the expire. Since we are both such intrepid world travelers, of course ... in a remarkly efficient online form that creates a .pdf file for you to print out and sign. Get your 4 passport ... . But it really does include an RFID chip in the card, so they can "scan" you and look you up even before [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 03:24:00

stray bullets

Crick was right about 'vision filter' in the brain As you read this sentence, your mind hones in on each word and blots out the rest of the page ... And he's hacking RFID passport scanners. Sinatra and Jobim (nice) Cziffra playing Liszt's Transcendental [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 11:43:00

FEDS SCAN THROUGH YOUR CLOTHES

FEDS SCAN THROUGH YOUR CLOTHES —————————– ... Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass cards ... , nationality, passport or ID number, and even a digitized photo. The new gadgets are in place, or soon [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 13:30:48

Stop the surveillance mania

(((From those stalwart modern defenders of civil liberties, the Germans. No, really, it's true ... collection of our biometric data as well as RFID passports abolish the blanket collection of genetic [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 04:54:49

Tracking your stolen UMPC

Every year thousands of Laptops are stolen or lost in USA along and you could become part of these statistics ... stolen goods!Warning : Don’t buy Motorola Prototypes!RFID Passports Due in US in AugustStolen smart [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 10:56:00

Digital passport security

Digital passport security: Hackers have released a source code that allows the ‘backup’ of RFID-protected passports, although the tool can potentially be used to create fake or cloned documents [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 07:07:48

The Risk of ePassports and RFID

Via THC Blog (The Hacker's Choice) -Today vonJeek/THC released his tool and a video how to duplicate (clone) and modify a Passport with RFID chip ... attacks, virus, misplacing the key by accident (the UK government is good at this!) or bribery [more...]

Date: 2008-09-30 20:30:00

Mythbusters RFID hacking episode canned by credit card company lawyers

Filed under: Misc. GadgetsAlthough it's no secret that RFID is easily hacked (see: train passes, passports, credit cards, one billion other cards, etc.) it's still ... most RFID implementations but was shut down by lawyers from "American Express, Visa, Discover [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 16:08:52

Mythbusters Silenced by Credit Card Companies

A Mythbusters episode entailing an analysis of RFID tags (and how easily they're hacked) ... =1 QuoteAlthough it's no secret that RFID is easily hacked (see: train passes, passports, credit cards ... was all set to do a show exposing the weak security behind most RFID implementations but was shut down [more...]

Date: 2008-09-03 21:36:24

New United States Passport Laws

WHY ARE THERE NEW US PASSPORT LAWS? In order to make our U.S. borders safer, the U.S. Government through it’s Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative ( ... and tracked with RFID technology. They are cheaper than the standard passport. There is a higher charge ... /passport/ppt_card/ppt_card_3926.html. Nov. 2, 2007 - A Congressional investigation indicates [more...]

Date: 2008-11-15 16:58:21

More ways for you Identity to be Stolen

From NewsMax… The devices, called Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass cards, and driver’s licenses that contain special chips with personal information. The RFIDs are so sensitive that, even before [more...]

Date: 2008-12-07 16:52:04

I made to Las Vegas

Sent from my HTC FUZE™, a Windows Mobile® smartphone from AT&T --- Related Articles at Mobility Site:iPod Vending Lives - Las Vegas Hilton SightingMe and Palm at CES 2009Who is your 2nd favorite Windows Mobile Phone Maker?Another iPod Vending Machine SightingUS Begins Rollout of RFID Passports [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 17:17:01

Risky Business #74 — HOWTO: Make your own Elvis bin Laden e-passport

This week’s Risky Business is brought to you by Microsoft and hosted, as always, by Vigabyte virtual hosting ... passports with embedded wireless RFIDs. The result was a rush job the likes of which you’ve never seen [more...]

Date: 2008-08-19 03:25:04

Hackers clone Elvis's passport

Hackers have released source code that allows the "backup" of RFID-protected passports, although the tool can potentially be used to create fake or cloned documents. [more...]

Date: 2008-10-01 12:11:48

New ID Scanners at Borders Raise Privacy Alarm

Monday, December 1, 2008 6:19 PMBy: Dave EberhartThe federal government has already deployed new detection machines that can scan citizens without ... Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass cards, and driver's ... be able to steal the personal information off the ID cards remotely.Tien and other critics warn [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 17:11:00

Gift Guide Part 2: Mile High Club

For the Frequent Flyer who calculates air time in mileage, not minutes, ... calculator, voice recorder, and eight travel games. 9. The newest U.S. Passports include RFID tags [more...]

Date: 2008-11-23 18:19:26

RFID tracking 50 foot range admitted

New ID Scanners at Borders Raise Privacy Alarm Monday, December 1, 2008 6:19 PM By: ... Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass ... . Tien and other critics warn that people up to no good can use their own RFID machines in a process [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 18:57:30

Leavin' on a jet plane? A few handy links before you go

My better half has been in the travel industry for the past few years ... surveillance of travelers, RFID in passports, and Passenger Name Record (PNR) data sharing. SkyScanner Route [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 22:16:04

Happy Birthday Open Rights Group November 20, 2008

Posted by fleshisgrass in digital rights, technology. trackback The Open Rights Group is 3 years old ( ... or a laptop isn’t stolen containing personal data. Surveillance, ID cards, RFID passports [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 17:00:05

ID Scanners....at Borders...PRIVACY ALARM? TELL ME WHAT YOU THINK....

New ID Scanners at Borders Raise Privacy Alarm Monday, December 1, 2008 6:19 PMBy: ... Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) machines, allow officials to read remotely any passports, pass ... . Tien and other critics warn that people up to no good can use their own RFID machines in a process [more...]

Date: 2008-12-04 00:21:00

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