{"id":364730,"date":"2010-02-24T05:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-24T10:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.davidicke.com\/headlines\/30885-hackers-expose-security-flaws-with-elvis-presley-passport"},"modified":"2010-02-24T05:10:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-24T10:10:00","slug":"hackers-expose-security-flaws-with-%e2%80%98elvis-presley%e2%80%99-passport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/364730","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Expose Security Flaws with \u2018Elvis Presley\u2019 Passport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;In the name of improved security a hacker showed how a biometric passport issued in the name of long-dead rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll king Elvis Presley could be cleared through an automated passport scanning system being tested at an international airport.<\/p>\n<p>Using a doctored passport at a self-serve passport machine, the hacker was cleared for travel after just a few seconds and a picture of the King himself appeared on the monitor&#8217;s display. Adam Laurie and Jeroen Van Beek, who call themselves &#8220;ethical hackers,&#8221; say the exercise exposed how easy it is to fool a passport scanner with a fraudulent biometric chip. The Presley test was carried out at Amsterdam&#8217;s Schiphol airport in September 2008 &#8212; by Laurie and Van Beek &#8212; to highlight potential security shortcomings.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/edition.cnn.com\/2010\/TECH\/02\/19\/passport.security\/index.html?hpt=Sbin\" >Read more: Hackers Expose Security Flaws with &#8216;Elvis Presley&#8217; Passport<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;In the name of improved security a hacker showed how a biometric passport issued in the name of long-dead rock &#8216;n&#8217; roll king Elvis Presley could be cleared through an automated passport scanning system being tested at an international airport. Using a doctored passport at a self-serve passport machine, the hacker was cleared for travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-364730","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364730","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=364730"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/364730\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=364730"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=364730"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=364730"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}