Tech industry could get crack at ID card security
News Last week, RFID security expert Adam Laurie said he had found a way to hack into the chips on the ID card, and that a series of offers to demonstrate the crack had been rebuffed by the Home Office. However, Laurie said his demonstration shows it is...
[August 14, 2009, 17:08]
Bluetooth security dangers ignored, say experts
News Adam Laurie, an RFID and communications protocol security researcher and consultant, agreed that communications protocols implementations in the main do not have adequate security, because the protocols are being used outside of the specifications...
[April 23, 2008, 15:53]
Dutch researcher claims e-passport hack
News Once the code is uploaded to the card, the chip can be cloned using a customised version of Adam Laurie's RFIDIOT tool, the researcher claimed. A Dutch researcher has published code that purports to emulate and clone e-passports, and has released a...
[October 1, 2008, 17:58]
Home Office shrugs off ID card hack demo
News Adam Laurie said he had made repeated approaches to the government department since December to show how he had managed to clone and modify the chip on an ID card belonging to a foreign student. However, the Home Office said it had asked Laurie to...
[August 7, 2009, 17:33]
Bluetooth phones at risk from 'snarfing'
News Adam Laurie, chief security officer at UK networking and security firm AL Digital, told ZDNet UK that the Nokia 6310, 6310i, 8910 and 8910i models were at greatest risk. Laurie said he discovered the problem when he was asked to test how safe...
[February 9, 2004, 13:15]
Fears for Oyster security as researchers claim crack
News My understanding is there are now three [Mifare] cracks at least," Adam Laurie, an RFID and communications protocol security researcher and consultant, said in a keynote speech on RFID flaws at the Infosec 2008 conference.
[June 23, 2008, 13:35]
Linux guru argues against security liability
News Adam Laurie, an open-source developer and security researcher, told the Lords that software manufacturers had a duty to the public to make it easy to secure computers, but he added that there is always a trade-off between usability and security.
[January 18, 2007, 13:02]
