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New E-Passports Cloned
Filed under: newsWithin an hour, Jeron Van Beek was able to create a successful clone of Britain's new E-Passport. All he needed was a £40 card reader, two £10 RFID chips, and a small, improvised script. Although the exact details were not specified, it looks like he read the ID on the real passport using the RFID reader, then he wrote it to the two blank chips and put them in the fake...

Homeland Security Issues Policy On Laptop Seizures
Filed under: news, security hacksThe US Department of Homeland Security recently disclosed a new policy that allows agents to seize laptops, or anything capable of storing information, "for a reasonable period of time". Okay, so this seems normal; A government agency is declaring they may confiscate personal property. However, the strange part of this story is that under this policy, federal agent...

Hacking Pleo For Face Recognition And Remote Control
Filed under: robots hacks, dailyGRIP, the Group for Interdisciplinary Psychology at the University of Bamberg have put together a couple tutorials on hacking the Pleo. For those unfamiliar, the Pleo is a small robot shaped like a dinosaur. Their goal was to make it cute and simulate emotion at a higher level than previously attained by consumer robots. Ugobe, the makers of Pleo encourage hacking o...

Black Hat 2008: Pwnie Award Ceremony
Filed under: cons, security hacksThe first night of Black Hat briefings concluded with the Pwnie Award Ceremony. The awards reward achievements in security... but mostly failures. Notably, this was the first year anyone accepted an award in person. Hack a Day took home an early victory by producing a MacBook mini-DVI to VGA adapter (pictured above). The ceremony was fairly straight forward after t...

Black Hat 2008: FasTrak Toll System Completely Broken
Filed under: transportation hacks, cons, security hacksFasTrak is the electronic toll collection system used by the state of California. Motorists can purchase a toll transponder for ~$26 and link the serial number with a debit account to have their tolls deducted automatically. Today at Black Hat in Las Vegas, security researcher [Nate Lawson] presented not just the privacy problems with FasTrak,...

Black Hat 2008: Dan Kaminsky Releases DNS Information
Filed under: misc hacks, cons, news[Dan Kaminsky]'s much anticipated talk on his DNS findings finally happened at Black Hat 2008 in Las Vegas today. [Dan] has already uploaded the complete slides from his talk as well as posted a short summary to his site. New information in the slides since our previous coverage includes "Forgot My Password" attacks and new attacks on internal network vulnerabili...

Black Hat 2008: EFF Coders\' Rights Project Announced
Filed under: news, security hacks The EFF has just announce the creation of the Coders' Rights Project website at the Black Hat conference. The sites' main goal is to centralize legal information for coders, and to help protect important security work from legal actions that may be taken against them with the DMCA and other legal black holes. While this is in no way a fully comprehensive list of e...

Hybrid Headphone Amplifier
Filed under: home entertainment hacks, daily[Rogers Gomez] has posted up this hybrid tube based headphone amplifier over at DIY Audio. Being a fan of tube amplifiers, but wanting something with lower voltage and lower cost, he put together this little system out of spare parts he had lying around. He wanted it to have as few parts as possible and be able to power his 32 ohm Grado headphones.He sta...

Remote Controlled Pill-bot
Filed under: robots hacks, newsThe NanoRobotics Lab at Carnegie Mellon University has come up with a medical robot that can be swallowed, and is then able to be controlled from outside the body. The device has small arms with adhesives that can attach to slippery internal surfaces, which has previously proven difficult. Once inside the body, it can be used to view damaged areas, deliver drugs, as ...

Autonomous SWARM At Large
Filed under: robots hacksSWARM has been showing up at a number of places. Until now, the mysterious spheres have been under human control. However, the SWARM has taken the first steps to autonomous control. The SWARM is a kinetic art project consisting of several large self-propelled metallic spheres that interact with each other and their environment. Each orb in the swarm is fitted out with a pr...

More On GIFAR
Filed under: news, security hacks[pdp] provides some perspective on the news regarding the GIFAR attack developed by researchers at NGS Software. As he explains, the idea behind the attack, which basically relies on combining a JAR with other files is not new. Combining JAR/ZIP files with GIF/JPG files will create hybrid files with headers at both the top and bottom of the file and allow them to b...

Laptop Containing 33,000 Clear Users Information Stolen
Filed under: news, security hacks Security 101: Never put unencrypted sensitive information on a laptop and expect that it's safe. Especially if you are the TSA. Recently, the TSA announced that a laptop was stolen from San Francisco International Airport containing "pre-enrollment records of approximately 33,000 customers" for the Clear Trusted Traveler Program. For $100 per year, the Clear Progr...

DIY Kidney Machine Saves Girl
Filed under: newsWhen the tool you need doesn't exist, you must make one. That's exactly what [Dr. Malcolm Coulthard] and kidney nurse [Jean Crosier] from Newcastle's Royal Victoria Infirmary did two years ago.When a baby too small for the regular dialysis machine (similar to the one pictured above) needed help after her kidneys failed, the kind doctor designed and built a smaller version of the m...

Vista On A PS3
Filed under: pcs hacks, playstation hacksApparently you can run pretty much anything on a PS3. [mopx0] has managed to get Vista running on his PS3. He used Qemu 9.0.1 to install Vista on a PC. He says it takes "about a day or so", after using Vlite to speed it up, so be patient. You then make an image of the install and copy it to your PS3. Don't worry though, your hard work will be rewarded by a ...

Deogen, Tiny Monitor Tester
Filed under: home entertainment hacks, dailyDeogen is a small, self contained device for testing monitors. It was designed back in 2000 to reduce the amount of space and effort required to test monitors in a computer shop. The initial design used an AT90S1200 microcontroller to generate test patterns for the monitors. Being about the size of a portable CD player, it was much easier to take to any ...

Defcon 16: Badge Details Released
Filed under: cons, security hacksDefcon will once again be one-upping the sophistication of the conference attendee badges. Wired has just published a preview of this year's badge. The core is a Freescale Flexis MC9S08JM60 processor. The badge has an IR transmitter and receiver on the front plus eight status LEDs. On the back (pictured below), there is a mode select button, CR123A battery, Data Ma...

How-To: The Hacker\'s Soldering Station
Filed under: how-to, dailyA good soldering station and fume extractor is a must for anyone interested in hacking and modding, but not everyone can afford the expensive professional models on the market. This How-To and the tips within it will guide you through the process of building an inexpensive homebrew fume hood complete with built-in time and temperature controlled soldering station and all ...

Magnetic Stripe Card Spoofer
Filed under: misc hacks, security hacksAfter building a USB magnetic stripe reader, [David Cranor] has found a way to fool a magnetic stripe reader using a hand-wound electromagnet and an iPod. The data on a card is read and stored on a computer, then encoded as a WAV file using a C++ program. The iPod plays the WAV file with the data through a single-stage opamp amplifier connected to the headpho...

The GIFAR Image Vulnerability
Filed under: cons, news, security hacksResearchers at NGS Software have come up with a method to embed malicious code into a picture. When viewed, the picture could send the attacker the credentials of the viewer. Social sites like Facebook and Myspace are particularly at risk, but the researchers say that any site which includes log ins and user uploaded pictures could be vulnerable. This even in...

Make: Television
Filed under: news Make Magazine, famous for the Maker Faire, among other things, has announced a new project called Make: television. The show will be coming to public television stations throughout the USA starting early 2009. The big news is that you can submit 2 minute long videos of your projects to be included in the show's Maker Channel segment. The bigger news is that if your video...

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