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Researcher Warns - USA - Electronic tolling vulnerable to hackers
A California researcher warns that electronic tolling transponders are vulnerable targets for computer hackers
Las Vegas,NV,USA -Land Line Magazine -August 12, 2008: -- Nate Lawson of Root Labs in Oakland, CA, who helped design digital security layers for products including Blu-ray discs, told attendees of an annual technology security conference called Black Hat, Aug. 6 in Las Vegas, that believes the FasTrak system in California could be hacked and “cloned” by thieves at the expense of the account holder... The topic of Lawson’s seminar was “Highway to Hell: Hacking Toll Systems.” In the presentation, he described how he bought a transponder at a supermarket, took it apart, and found a way to breach certain firewalls... “I’m reasonably certain an attacker can send a couple messages to a FasTrak transponder and wipe its internal ID,” Lawson stated online following the presentation... Lawson told Land Line that all existing electronic tolling systems work on similar principles, but he had not yet researched other systems such as E-ZPass or SunPass...Labels: hackering tolls roads
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