Source and comments... http://www.digg.com/security/Self-replicating_RFID_virus_created
Details and research paper from researchers... http://www.rfidvirus.org http://www.rfidvirus.org/papers/percom.06.pdf "By now the general outline of the problem should be clear: when an unsuspecting reader scans an infected tag, there is a danger of the tag exploiting a vulnerability in the middleware to cause unwanted actions to occur, which may include infecting the database. " Article... http://www.computerworld.com/printthis/2006/0,4814,109560,00.html RFID tags vulnerable to viruses, study says Attacks could soon come in the form of a SQL injection or a buffer overflow attack News Story by Jeremy Kirk MARCH 15, 2006 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - Three computer science researchers are warning that viruses embedded in radio tags used to identify and track goods are right around the corner, a danger that so far has been overlooked by the industry's high interest in the technology. No viruses targeting radio frequency identification (RFID) technology have been released live yet, according to the researchers at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Netherlands. But RFID tags have several characteristics that could be engineered to exploit vulnerabilities in middleware and back-end databases, they wrote in a paper presented today at a conference in Pisa, Italy. [...] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "SOCALWUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/SOCALWUG SOCALWUG website: http://www.socalwug.org -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
