Wednesday, September 20, 2017

This hacker really, really wants people to hide their ID badges when they’re on the bus


Tom Van de Wiele, a security researcher with F-Secure in Denmark, has an interesting project. The Belgian-born researcher has taken to photographing people with their company ID badges on display, and posting them on his Twitter page with the hashtag #protectyouraccesscard. So far, he’s managed to capture dozens of ID cards, mostly from people walking down the street, or riding public transport. Introducing #protectyouraccesscard pic.twitter.com/5e4uc8dqGv — Tom Van de Wiele (@0xtosh) March 28, 2017 There’s a serious point behind it, as Van de Wiele explained to me. Physical security is an important part of information security. If an attacker is…

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