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Renegade:
Check this:

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/techworm.net

Techworm.net ranks around 25k. That's a big site.

Now, check this:

http://www.techworm.net/2015/02/hackers-can-use-rfid-readers-steal-payment-card-numbers-public.html

BY DWULF ON FEBRUARY 12, 2015 HACKING NEWS, SECURITY NEWS, VULNERABILITY

New credit cards with embedded RFID chips can pose a problem with security and identity theft

A team of cyber security researchers have revealed that hackers can mobile technology to use to steal credit and debit numbers from you while you’re in public. The cards at risk are enabled with radio technology that allows you to “wave and pay.”

Its as though while you are ‘waving and paying’ a hacker lurking in vicinity is secretly reading your payment card numbers and storing them. While you are unaware of such a risk, you may receive a 440 volts shock to see unknown payments at the end of the payment cycle in your billing statement.

Radio frequencies are all over the place but the frequency most smart cards (i.e. newer debit and credit cards) are in the range of 13.56 MHz (HF) the range can be detected between 10 centimeters – 1 meter (around 2 feet max).
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Just. WOW!

I'm pretty stunned.

First, 1 metre is closer to 3 feet than 2 feet, but... also, this:



That was 2010. Ranges DEMONSTRATED were ORDERS OF MAGNITUDE LARGER.

See here:

http://www.tombom.co.uk/extreme_rfid.pdf

If you want to see some seriously scary stuff, do this:

1) Visit this URL: http://www.tombom.co.uk
2) View the source.
3) Crap your pants.

Lesson Learned: BE VERY AFRAID!!! :P

Stoic Joker:
1) Visit this URL: http://www.tombom.co.uk
2) View the source.
3) Crap your pants.
-Renegade (February 13, 2015, 07:55 AM)
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I can't get to step 3 because step 2 just says boo!

Site down/link bad perhaps?

Renegade:
Odd. The source was blank for me in two browsers.

Deozaan:
This is news? Like, new news? I thought RFID chips broadcasting their data being a security risk was a known issue for years. Maybe longer than a decade.

If you take a hammer and smash your credit card in just the right spot, it will destroy the RFID chip. Or you could also nuke it in the microwave for a few seconds to destroy it.

1) Visit this URL: http://www.tombom.co.uk
2) View the source.
3) Crap your pants.
-Renegade (February 13, 2015, 07:55 AM)
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I can't get to step 3 because step 2 just says boo!

Site down/link bad perhaps?
-Stoic Joker (February 13, 2015, 11:26 AM)
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For me:
Step 1 says "Boo!"
Step 2 is blank/empty source.
Step 3 in progress.

Stoic Joker:
^I wonder if that means we passed the test? Although it seems unlikely given the intro.

@Ren - What browser "works" for the pants crapping exorcise?

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