Black Hat 2009: Parking meter hacking

posted Jul 30th 2009 3:53pm by Eliot Phillips
filed under: cons, security hacks, transportation hacks

meter

For day two of Black Hat, we sat in on on [Joe Grand], [Jacob Appelbaum], and [Chris Tarnovsky]’s study of the electronic parking meter industry. They decided to study parking meters because they are available everywhere, but rarely considered from a security perspective.

Read the rest of this entry »

Smart card emulator

posted Mar 3rd 2009 6:18pm by Eliot Phillips
filed under: security hacks, tool hacks

goodcard10

Here’s a quick prototype from [Travis Goodspeed]. It’s a smart card built around an MSP430 microcontroller. We’ve used the MSP430 in the past because of its low power demands. He says this business card currently supports 1.8V to 3.3V, but a future design will have 5V as well. Technologies like Java Card exist for running applets on smart cards, but a familiar microcontroller like the MSP430 could certainly make development much faster. Knowing [Travis], there’s a reader somewhere about to go through some serious fuzzing.




How-to: Read a FedEx Kinko’s smart card (SLE4442)

posted Nov 25th 2008 5:29pm by Ian
filed under: how-to, misc hacks, tool hacks

overview

Our wallets are filling up with SIM and RFID cards that contain hidden information. Using our latest project, the Bus Pirate universal serial interface, we can dump the memory from many common smart cards. In today’s How-to, we show you how to interface common smart cards, and walk you through the data stored on a FedEx Kinko’s prepaid value card.

Read the rest of this entry »

Hack a Day serves up fresh hacks each day, every day from around the web and a special How-To hack each week.

Send us your hacks