Pwnie Award Nominees
Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008The yearly Pwnie Award nominees are selected. The Pwnie Award is an annual awards ceremony celebrating and making fun of the achievements and failures of security researchers and the wider security community. Many categories are there from “server-side bugs” to “Most Epic Fail” and even “Lifetime Achievement Award”. Pick your favorite now. The winners of the Pwnie Awards will be announced on August 6, 2008 at a ceremony at the BlackHat USA conference in Las Vegas.
Now here’s a nice video in which some German hackers explain how they analyzed and hacked the Mifare chip that is about to be used in the chipcard for Dutch public transportation. Although each chip has a unique ID the Germans show how they can alter the key so it card behaves as another card with another unique ID. So the ID can’t be changed but using the key a card can be cloned. They will publish full details somewhere next year. As they say it: “start migrating now”. Video is about one hour.