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Your Gym Locker May Be Hackable
Security researchers say they’ve extracted digital management keys from select electronic lockers and revealed how they could be cloned.
Thousands of electronic lockers found in gyms, offices, and schools could be vulnerable to attacks by criminals using cheap hacking tools to access administrator keys, according to new research. “If we do not know about security vulnerabilities, we cannot fix them, and we cannot make better systems in the future,” says Hannah Zhao, a staff attorney at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, who helped Giese ensure the talk could go ahead after the cease-and-desist letter was received. Giese says people should be more cautious about the PINs they use on their devices, and any RFID tokens from a locker could potentially be used elsewhere within an office building, on doors for instance, that would allow an advanced attack greater access to systems.
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