---
id: 4468
title: "EEPROM: When Tearing-Off Becomes a Security Issue"
source_domain: blog.quarkslab.com
source_url: "https://blog.quarkslab.com/eeprom-when-tearing-off-becomes-a-security-issue.html"
published_at: "2019-10-28T23:00:00Z"
tags: ["hardware-security", "rfid", "proxmark3", "tear-off", "eeprom", "ata5577c"]
phying_url: "https://phying.com/item/4468"
lang: en
---

# EEPROM: When Tearing-Off Becomes a Security Issue

## Summary

Demonstrates how deliberately interrupting EEPROM writes on RFID tags (e.g. ATA5577C) with a Proxmark3 can bypass password protection and recover tag memory content, plus countermeasures.

## Intelligence Metadata

- **Sources:** blog.quarkslab.com
- **Published:** 2019-10-28T23:00:00Z
- **Original:** https://blog.quarkslab.com/eeprom-when-tearing-off-becomes-a-security-issue.html
- **Phying News:** https://phying.com/item/4468