A Google engineer was apparently so bored he decided to hack open secure doors at a Google office

guest · Sep 3, 2018

A Google engineer was apparently so bored he decided to hack open secure doors at a Google office
September 03, 2018
https://bgr.com/2018/09/03/google-doors-open-after-hack/

It’s widely known Google has some of the best software engineers on the planet. Last July, one of them — a Google engineer who works in the company’s Sunnyvale offices — decided to put his skills to the test. Er, against his employer.

David Tomaschik found a software vulnerability that allowed him to hack open doors on campus that you were supposed to need an RFID keycard for. He hacked up some code, sent it across the company’s network, and quickly saw the light on the door to his office turn from red to green.

Tomaschik talked with Forbes about what he’d done following a talk he gave on this in early August at the DEF Con Internet of Things Village in Las Vegas.

Google, naturally, has taken steps to fix all this. For one thing, the company has segmented its network to prevent people on its properties from doing something like this. The Software House devices also now apparently use a stronger form of encryption
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