Adam Laurie: RFIDIOts!!! - Practical RFID hacking (without soldering irons)

Black Hat Briefings, Europe 2007 [Audio] Presentations from the security conference.

RFID is being embedded in everything... From Passports tPants. Door Keys tCredit Cards. Mobile Phones tTrash Cans. Pets tPeople even! For some reason these devices have become the solution tevery new problem, and we can't seem tget enough of them....
"Adam Laurie is Chief Security Officer and a Director of The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd. He started in the computer industry in the late Seventies, working as a computer programmer on PDP-8 and other mini computers, and then on various Unix, Dos and CP/M based micrcomputers as they emerged in the Eighties. He quickly became interested in the underlying network and data protocols, and moved his attention tthose areas and away from programming, starting a data conversion company which rapidly grew tbecome Europe's largest specialist in that field (A.L. downloading Services).
During this period, he successfully disproved the industry lie that music CDs could not be read by computers, and, with help from his brother Ben, wrote the world's first CD ripper, 'CDGRAB'. At this point, he and Ben became interested in the newly emerging concept of 'The Internet', and were involved in various early open source projects, the most well known of which is probably their own-'Apache-SSL'-which went on tbecome the de-factstandard secure web server.
Since the late Nineties they have focused their attention on security, and have been the authors of various papers exposing flaws in Internet services and/or software, as well as pioneering the concept of re-using military data centres (housed in underground nuclear bunkers - http://www.thebunker.net) as secure hosting facilities.
Adam has been a senior member of staff at DEFCON since 1997, and alsacted as a member of staff during the early years of the Black Hat Briefings. More recently he has become interested in mobile device security, and was responsible for discovering many major Bluetooth security issues, and has alsspoken on other wireless topics such as InfraRed and Magnetic Stripes. His current interest, RFID, has spawned another Open Source project, RFIDIOt, which is alsbringing several security issues tthe fore. More detail can be found here: http://rfidiot.org"