Security researchers have long known about the vulnerabilities of the RFID readers that many buildings use instead of door locks, but facilities managers have been slow to upgrade to more secure systems.
To draw attention to the problem, at next week’s Black Hat conference, Accuvant researchers will be releasing an open source piece of hardware that can be used to circumvent these readers.
When these readers first started being used about 20 years ago, no security was built in, said Mark Baseggio, managing principal consultant at Accuvant.
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