That information in hand, it was a simple matter of using it to program new cards. Jacobs says the same technique can clone smartcards that provide access to secure buildings.
At the technical level there are currently no known countermeasures. So break out your tinfoil hats and alumnium hats, the smartcard hackers are coming to a building near you soon. The Dutch government are taking this VERY seriously, planning to replace all , smart cards used by their employees for access. That will be an expensive excercise. And what rights does a consumer have after their card is cloned and their credit used, are they insured?
Would they even notice? Source: Wired Blog Thanks to razta. Up to now the Dutch government has persisted in the project of the OV-card based on this mifare chip, even though it was proven vulnerable.
Dutch hackers coming over onto our turf and telling us how its done, we should go over there and find a security hole in one of thier public systems. We could have a hacker turf war!
Isnt this the same technology the goverment wanted to use for the ID cards? Do you think the flaw the hackers found can be patched? Better encryption perhaps? Wish I lived in London, could get free transport all day long! Gona take a bigger interest in the metro system they use in my city, they dont use oyster cards here, they use magnetic strips.
The cool thing about these chips is that they are being shrunk so much that they are approaching the microscopic level! I was reading in Popular Science or something about how they are getting embedded into new products.
Tube travellers have had their online payment accounts hacked, according to Transport for London TfL. Some 1, customers attempting to access their online Oyster card accounts have reported being denied access since Wednesday. TfL said while no customer payment details had been breached it had "temporarily suspended" online contactless and Oyster accounts.
The transport body has six million online Oyster account holders. In February, we reported how Deliveroo customers were having their accounts hacked and food ordered to random addresses. The attack type can use the relatively unsophisticated technique of credential stuffing.
This involves hackers obtaining usernames and passwords from data breaches and then testing to see whether they work against a myriad of other online accounts. The problem comes from people using the same weak passwords for multiple different accounts and credential stuffing is a simple way for hackers to benefit from previous data breaches.
In January this year the world's largest database of compromised email addresses and passwords appeared online in the Collection databases. Between them they include GB of data, which is a complete treasure trove for hackers looking to exploit online accounts.
During the first six months of this year a number of other companies have suspended user accounts because of credential stuffing attacks. In July, Sky's UK arm told customers to reset their passwords after suffering from a credential stuffing attack.
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