Federal agents at the the DefCon hacker conference got a scare on Friday when they were told they might have been caught in the sights of an RFID reader.
The reader, connected to a web camera [!], sniffed data from RFID-enabled ID cards and other documents carried by attendees in pockets and backpacks [and the camera recorded their photos!] as they passed the Aries Security table where the equipment was stationed in full view.
The Meet-the-Fed panel, an annual event at DefCon, presented a target-rich environment for anyone who might have wanted to scan government RFID documents for nefarious purposes. The 22 panelists included top cybercops and officials from the FBI, Secret Service, National Security Agency, Department of Homeland Security, Defense Department, Treasury Department and U. S. Postal Inspection. And these were just the Feds who weren’t undercover.
Brian Markus, CEO of Aries Security who is known in the hacker community as “Riverside,” said they planned to blur the camera images and superimpose a sheep’s head over faces to protect identities before putting them on the wall [of shame.]
Read the whole story at Wired. If you care about America's security, it's sure to get your goat.
h/t: tmlgcq
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