This posts kicks-off a series of posts on smart cards and RFID tags.
First a little bit of fun. I’ve written a Python program to read and write 1K MIFARE RFID tags with my ACR122 contactless reader/writer.
I store shellcode on an MIFARE tag (MIFAREACR122.py write shellcode.bin); and then I read it from the tag and execute it (MIFAREACR122.py shellcode).
Of course, this is just a little trick, it’s not a vulnerability. Just find it funny to store shellcode on a RFID tag.
It was surprising to see the CommNet desktops at our disposal at TechEd Barcelona 2008. This time, you were not required anymore to perform a Windows logon to the machine with your attendee account. A generic, limited user account was already logged-on. Every attendee had to use this account.
This is a bad idea. Even a limited user account can be compromised with spyware, as I’ve shown with my Basic Process Manipulation Tool Kit.
cmd.exe was disabled, but this policy is still easy to bypass:
Didier Stevens 