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Exploiting RFIDs

Published: January 1, 2005

The Texas Instruments DST tag is a cryptographically enabled RFID transponder used in several wide-scale systems including vehicle immobilizers and the ExxonMobil SpeedPass system. This page serves as an overview of our successful attacks on DST enabled systems. A preliminary version of the full academic paper describing our attacks in detail is also available below. […]

Fighting Back Against SSL Inspection, or How SSL Should Work

July 12, 2017 Jacob Thompson, Independent Security Evaluators Enterprise networks increasingly intercept and inspect SSL-protected employee web traffic—often without adequate understanding on the employee’s behalf—and almost certainly without the consent of the entity operating the server. The cases of Trustwave, TURKTRUST, and ANSSI illustrate how the confidentiality of client-server communications is further threatened by the […]