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Virus Jumps to RFID

Posted by ryuzaki0 on

MrShaggy writes "According to a BBC article, researchers have been able to make the jump between RFID tags and viruses. They found that the mere act of scanning a mere 127 bytes could cause an attack vector that would corrupt databases. From the article;'"This is intended as a wake-up call," said Andrew Tanenbaum, one of the researchers in the computer science department at Amsterdam's Free University that did the work revealing the weaknesses on smart tags. "We ask the RFID industry to design systems that are secure," he said.'"

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  1. oh no!! by preppypoof · · Score: 3, Funny
    They found that the mere act of scanning a mere 127 bytes could cause an attack vector that would corrupt databases.
    looks like their grammar databases have already been corrupted...
  2. I'm sorry Uncle Kent; I lost my thesaurus by spun · · Score: 3, Funny

    Brockman: Big game fever is reaching a fever pitch as the
                    fevered rivalry between Springfield U. and
                    Springfield A&M spreads like wildfever. [looks
                    offstage] This is writing?
    Intern: I'm sorry Uncle Kent; I lost my thesaurus.

    --
    - None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license. -- John Milton
  3. Re:A mere 127 bytes? If only they had more by lxs · · Score: 2, Funny
    Just imagine what they could do with a mere half a megabyte.


    Considering Andy Tannenbaum is involved, I imagine they would probably port Minix to it.
  4. Re:Like the JPEG "virus" by julesh · · Score: 2, Funny

    [1] People debate terms like "alive", "dead", "reproduce" for hours on end, until they realize they're arguing over definitions, which by definition is pointless....

    No it isn't.