How to hack RFID-enabled Credit Cards for $8 (BBtv)

A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags), with promises of enhanced security and speedy transactions.

But on today's episode of Boing Boing tv, hacker and inventor Pablos Holman shows Xeni how you can use about $8 worth of gear bought on eBay to read personal data from those credit cards -- cardholder name, credit card number, and whatever else your bank embeds in this manner.

Fears over data leaks from RFID-enabled cards aren't new, and some argue they're overblown -- but this demo shows just how cheap and easy the "sniffing" can be.

This episode is part of our ongoing series of interviews with some of the thinkers, hackers, and tinkerers at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology conference this year.

For more episodes of Boing Boing tv, visit tv.boingboing.net.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Hack
• RFID
• credit
• card
• sniffer
• identity
• theft

[stealthtank91]

lol who calls it an r-fid?

[BloodRedChorizo]

@Flomounier1

As if you can't hack with Mac OS? And beyond that it's pretty easy to triple OSX, WIndows, and Linux if need be.

[kingblood52]

Idk really what's going on

[smokinpott]

at 1:23 he made it way to ovious LMAO!

[aztectat]

bullshit:))...they can't do shit with that data without cvv (at least)..unless they can skimm your track 2 , this shit is uselless...propaganda!!

[canoblas]

some Google phones well have rfid readers, for transactions between users. with a few hacks to the phone and now you have a Rfid chip reader that looks like a phone because it is a phone

[snoop0x7b]

@whiteland9992 I believe the RFID tag broadcast everything on the magnetic track, including the CVV number. It's everything required to do a "card present" transaction available via RFID.

[Nadnetuk1]

@MrJobonski Mifare is a RFID card for example ISO14443 card. its has a micro-Chip embedded in it with a antenna. With stores information on the Tag. Tag is the mifare.

Now Smart Card is a Card aswell but it can be for example a ISO7816 form mean Credit Card. SmartCard ISO7816 is the design form. i.e credit card.with a smartChip. a Chip embedded in the card which communicate using the ISO design.

I hope i have answer your question. If you need more help, i'll be happy to assist. ?

[whiteland9992]

@Nadnetuk1 you can't get the PIN code but you can order stuff from the internet whit the credit card info..