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Borer Data Systems eNewsletter - a publication for our partners and
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Issue 7
October 2007
In this issue…
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Total Workplace Management Exhibition 2007 (
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Double Mag-Lock over CAT5e Cable
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New Premises
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Wiegand Technology Compromised
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New Software for SMEs and Small Organisations
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Total Workplace
Management Exhibition 2007 (
Come and visit us on stand D102
Borer Data Systems has been
short listed and are finalist for the Working Buildings Week Innovation
Awards in the following categories:
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We lead the market by designing equipment with low power
demands, providing systems that deliver power and data over industry standard
CAT5 cable.
Double Mag-Lock over
CAT5e Cable
It’s Official! Borer Data
have successfully tested a double Mag-lock and an "IN" and an
"OUT" reader over 300metres of a single CAT5e cable using the Borer
Mid Span Bridge and POE (Power Over Ethernet) concepts.
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No
need for 240v at every door requiring access control
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Reduced
clutter around door, panel free concept
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Reduced
carbon footprint
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System
monitors the devices power usage and can predict potential failure
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Uses
your existing IT infrastructure
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Complete
data security with end to end encryption (only applies when Borer
readers are used)
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Download
Mifare encryption keys to readers at the touch of a button, worldwide! (only
applies when Borer readers are used)
It's will be showcased at the
aforementioned Total Workplace Management Exhibition.
New Premises
Our offices are now located on the outskirts of
Wokingham, with plenty of parking spaces.
Our Address:
Borer Data Systems Ltd,
Crown House,
Wokingham,
RG41 1QN.
Wiegand
Technology Compromised
At the Defcon security
conference on August 2007, a hacker and Defcon staffer who goes by the name
Zac Franken, showed how a small homemade device he calls “Gecko” can perform a hack on the type of
access card readers used on office doors throughout the country.
“Gecko”
is simply a small, programmable PIC chip with a wire connector on either
side. Once it's connected to the wires behind the card reader, it's not only
trivial to use a 'Replay' card to get through the door, but you can also
disable the system so that nobody else can come in behind you.
Franken’s demonstration showed how
to hack into a card access reader by:
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Popping the card access reader's
plastic cover (most card readers used in access control applications do not
have tamper protection);
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Undoing two retention screws and exposing
the electrical cable which connects the card reader to the control panel;
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Introducing a miniature circuit board onto
the Wiegand data transmission lines and replacing the card reader head.
Consequently,
the majority of access control systems are vulnerable at their weakest point,
the "Wiegand Interface” no
matter how sophisticated the levels of security employed in protecting the
identity card and the data held within it.
The
full article can be downloaded from our website: http://borer.co.uk/pages/case_studies/wiegand_white_paper_oct_2007.pdf
Extracts from the demonstration are available on
Youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHNJoHc_XDY
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New Software for
SMEs and Small Organisations
The forthcoming
exhibition will see the first release of FUSION SE.
Featuring a graphic
display in real time with predictive fault diagnostics
that remotely monitors devices for communication, power consumption and temperature
anomalies thereby improving fault diagnoses and allowing the systems and/or
users to power reset devices over the network.
Due for release at the end of the
fourth quarter of 2007.
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