Researcher’s “Open Sesame” Hack Bypasses Door Access Cards

LAS VEGAS — Security researchers have spent a lot of time the last couple of years cracking building access systems from the level of the user device — RFID and smartcards, for example. But a researcher in Texas found that he could crack one electronic access system at the network control level and simply open a door with a spoofed command sent over the network, eliminating the need for an access card. He could do it while bypassing the audit log, so the system wouldn’t see that someone opened the door.

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Researcher’s “Open Sesame” Hack Bypasses Door Access Cards

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