MiFare RFID cracked
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008I really pity the people who have to design RFID security systems. I don’t mean that condescendingly at all, I really do. They have a system which had no native power source, and has to cost about a dime, and they have to somehow build strong authentication into it. They have to design complex circuitry for minimal cost that runs on almost no power. With that in mind, it’s no wonder there are so many examples of people cracking RFID systems. This is just the newest case.
Researchers of Radboud University in Nijmegen in the Netherlands managed to crack and clone London’s Oyster travel card. They were able to take free rides on the Underground and even perpetrated a DDoS attack on a Tube gate.
