Danger — hard hack area

The MIFARE Hack

The MIFARE Classic is the most popular RFID chip, used in public transport as well as cafeterias and other applications. This paper gives an overview of which methods were used to re-engineer the chips, from polishing to analyzing the communication. Within this process, various security weaknesses were discovered. Those allow various attacks, which will be shown in the last part of the paper.

Proximity Breeds Danger: Emerging Threats in Metro-area Wireless Networks

The growing popularity of wireless networks and mobile devices is starting to attract unwanted attention especially as potential targets for malicious activities reach critical mass. In this study, we try to quantify the threat from large-scale distributed attacks on wireless networks, and, more specifically, wifi networks in densely populated metropolitan areas. We focus on three likely attack...

Weblint: Just Another Perl Hack

Weblint is a utility for checking the syntax and style of HTML pages. It was inspired by lint [15], which performs a similar function for C and C++ programmers. Weblint does not aspire to be a strict SGML validator, but to provide helpful comments for humans. The importance of quality assurance for web sites is introduced, and one particular area, validation of HTML, is described in more detail...

Asthma is a Serious Danger

  میزان مرگ و میر آسم طی دهه گذشته بطور چشمگیری تغییر کرده است. با مبتلا کردن ۱۵ میلیون آمریکایی میزان مرگ و میر در سال ۱۹۷۸، به رقم ۱۸۷۲ نفر و ۹ سال بعد، به بیش از ۴۰۰۰ نفر رسید. علت چنین افزایش چشمگیری روشن نیست. علل احتمالی عبارتند از کاهش ظرفیت تنفس، استفاده بیش از حد از داروهای استثنائی و استنباط غلط بیماران و نیز مراکز درمانی نسبت به شدت بیماری است. بررسی دقیق، معالجات مناسب و آموزش به ب...

Reinhard Wilhelm , Helmut Seidl , Sebastian Hack