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Researcher details findings on spoofing GPS, malicious insiders

Researcher details findings on spoofing GPS, malicious insiders

Researcher details findings on spoofing GPS, malicious insiders

Date: Sep 13, 2012

Biometric authentication systems, electronic voting machines and the Global Positioning System – technologies that play a major role in the day-to-day security and operations of the U.S. – can be hacked in the blink of an eye. It's Roger Johnston's job to figure out how.

"In one case," Johnston said, "we defeated a fairly sophisticated biometrics access control system with parts from a Bic pen."

In this video recorded at the 2012 (ISC)² Security Congress in Philadelphia, Johnston, head of the... Vulnerability Assessment Team at Argonne National Laboratory, discusses how easy spoofing GPS data can be and what the worst-case scenario might be for enterprises, as well as Argonne's research on the growing threat of disgruntled, malicious insiders and simple ways to reduce the threat they pose.

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