Airport Access IDs Hacked In Germany

Posted by timothy on Thursday January 14, 2010 @09:50PM from the wilkommen-sie-herr-aktentasche dept.

teqo writes "Hackers belonging to the Chaos Computer Club have allegedly cloned digital security ID cards for some German airports successfully which then allowed them access to all airport areas. According to the Spiegel Online article (transgoogleation here), they used a 200 Euro RFID reader to scan a valid security ID card, and since the scanner was able to pretend to be that card, used it to forge that valid ID. Even the airport authorities say that the involved system from 1992 might be outdated, but I guess it might be deployed elsewhere anyway."

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Re:Really by Shadow_139 · 2010-01-14 22:04 · Score: 5, Informative

The kit used, a Proxmark 3 cost ~$470 before P&P but they were been sold at 26c3 for 200 cash-in-hand.

Sounds like somebody who was at the conference has an hour or two to kill in the airport and decided to play with their new toy.....

And to anybody saying you could not get it past security, I got my Netbook, Proxmark3, SIM simulator, a few FON and a big of random USB,wireless & BT dongles past them it no issues {except some of the stuff was removed from my carry-on bay and was double x-rays}.