In the news this week…
There’s been a lot of security-related issues in the news this week (just like every week, actually). I thought I’d fuel the discussions by listing a few of them. I thought I’d also provide some links to topics that 3ric discussed on Friday. Please create new blog entries for the topics you’d like to explore further:
- RFID cards to help prevent underage smoking in Japan: http://www.taspo.jp/english/taspo/Introduction.html
- Homemade robots patrol Atlanta streets: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/07/2029236
- Open source robot for household tasks: http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/07/012207
- Sat-nav dog collar that keeps track of Fido: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article3501141.ece
- Video of talk on reverse engineering crypto in an RFID chip: http://www.hackaday.com/2008/01/01/24c3-mifare-crypto1-rfid-completely-broken/
- H1kari’s work on intercepting GSM: http://www.hackaday.com/2008/02/15/shmoocon-2008-intercepting-gsm-traffic/
- Brain scanner can tell what you’re looking at: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/03/mri_vision
- Attacking Chip & Pin credit card transactions: http://www.usenix.org/events/sec07/tech/drimer.html
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March 16, 2008 @ 9:14 pm
[…] be appropriate for me to conduct a review on the new ‘taspo’ RFID cards which Yoshi also mentioned a while back. The ‘taspo’ cards are being introduced in Japan in an attempt to reduce underage […]