A spoofing attack against an EPC class one RFID system
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
Centre for Security Research, Edith Cowan University
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Security Science / Centre for Security Research
RAS ID
9319
Abstract
In computing the term spoofing historically referred to the creation of TCP/IP packets using another device's valid IP address to gain an advantage. The Electronic Product Code (EPC) RFID system was investigated to test the efficacy of spoofing a valid tag response to basic requests. A radio frequency transmission device was constructed to determine whether a valid reader could distinguish between the response of an actual tag and a spoofed response. The results show that the device was able to successfully deceive the EPC reader and further, to replace actual tag responses with a spoofed response. The potential for such attacks against inventory systems using the EPC standard would be significant in terms of both operational and actual costs.
DOI
10.4225/75/57b3fd0830de6
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
Bolan, C. (2009, December). Spoofing Attack Against an EPC Class One RFID System. In Australian Information Security Management Conference (p. 18-23). Available here