Hack the System!

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.

The first SPIE software Hack Day

We report here on the software Hack Day organised at the 2014 SPIE conference on Astronomical Telescopes and Instrumentation in Montréal. The first ever Hack Day to take place at an SPIE event, the aim of the day was to bring together developers to collaborate on innovative solutions to problems of their choice. Such events have proliferated in the technology community, providing opportunities ...

The Case Study of a Computer Hack

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...

On the Hardness of Approximating the Min-Hack Problem

We study the hardness of approximation for the MINIMUM HACKING problem, which roughly can be described as the problem of finding the best way to compromise some target nodes given a few initial compromised nodes in a network. We give three reductions to show that MINIMUM HACKING is not approximable to within where , for any ! " $#% . In particular, the reductions are from a PCP, from the MINIMU...