[e-privacy] Deminar Reminder: RFID Malware: How to Infect the Internet of Things

[Emanuele Olivetti]

Scusate se non l'ho segnalato prima (dimenticanza mia) perche' immagino
che a qualcuno di sicuro potrebbe interessare su questa lista.

Oggi a Trento (Povo) presso la facolta' di scienze (dipartimento di
informatica e telecomunicazioni) ci sara' un seminario sugli attacchi all'RFID.
Io ci vado e per rimediare vi posso mandare in lista un riassunto (o le
slide se riesco a ottenerne una copia per la libera distribuzione).

Seguono qui sotto i dettagli.

Ciao,

Emanuele

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TITLE: RFID Malware: How to Infect the Internet of Things

SPEAKER: Melanie R. Rieback

DATE: March 31, 2006 at 11:00:00 AM
LOCATION: Room 7 - Faculty of Science - Povo

ABSTRACT:
Attacks against Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems are currently conceived as properly formatted but fake 
RFID data; however no one currently expects an RFID tag to abuse such a data. This talk will discuss how data from RFID 
tags can be used to exploit back-end software systems. The discussion will first define RFID malware  and will then 
describe the application scenarios, attack mechanisms, and implementation details. We will then explain what RFID 
middleware writers can do to stop such attacks. The talk will conclude with alive demonstration.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER:
Melanie R. Rieback is a doctoral student at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam in the Computer Systems Group. Her research 
interests include computer security, ubiquitous computing, and RFID. She received her MSc in computer science from the 
Technical University of Delft. Contact her at the Dept. of Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 
1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam, Netherlands; melanie at cs.vu.nl; www.cs.vu.nl/~melanie.
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