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London Underground's card system fails

The RFID-based smartcard technology providing access control to London's public transportation system failed on Saturday, when the network stopped accepting cards. by Michael Krigsman

Tags: Card, Smart Card, London, London Underground, Oyster Card System, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Security, Michael Krigsman

Blog posts 2008-07-15

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Researchers publish details on London travel card hack

First there was Boston's Charlie card. Now, Dutch researchers have exposed the inherent weakness in the RFID chip used in London's Oyster travel smartcard, ZDNet UK says. Researchers released details at the Esorics security conference in Malaga on Monday and an academic paper PDF...

Tags: Card, Researcher, London, Chip, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-07

London Underground's card system fails

London Underground's card system failsIt's not all bad...Instead of billing everybody individually for tickets from A to B, they just left the ticket barriers open, so free Tube travel for me :-)RE: London Underground's card system failsAn announced event.This will happen again and again in the future. The RFID technology...

Tags: card system, London Underground, RFID, chip

Discussion threads 2008-07-15

Security researchers hack the London underground train for free ride

A group of Dutch security researchers were able to clone the "smartcards" that commuters use to pay fares in the London Underground system, allowing the group to ride for free.  This is an interesting attack vector that I actually talked to Adam Laurie about when I was at Black Hat Amsterdam. ...

Tags: Card, Smart Card, Researcher, London, Smart Cards, Security, Nathan McFeters

Blog posts 2008-06-26

ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackers

ATI driver flaw exposes Vista kernel to attackersJust over 6 months....... to blast a *major* hole into Uncle Bill's "most secure operating system ever". It is a good hole too. Find a buggy driver - or write your own - and Vista's kernel is your oyster.Good Job ATIWay to punch...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Video cards, SECURITY, Operating systems, ATI Technologies Inc., Microsoft Windows Vista, NVidia Corp., kernel

Discussion threads 2007-08-10