|
Home / News / Tags / rfid
|
|
Monday marked a dark day for all organizations and institutions that rely on the MIFARE Classic RFID smart cards, as two separately released research papers describe how to hack and clone such cards in a matter of minutes. These cards are used across the globe for access to transit systems and institutions, both priv... |
7 October 2008
08:06 GMT |
 |
|
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 31, which makes it illegal to establish a connection with a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag in order to access the stored information without explicit consent from its owner. The Governor had previously vetoed another bill (SB 768), which aimed at... |
6 October 2008
06:44 GMT |
|
|
Adam Savage, co-host of the popular show “The MythBusters,” has disclosed at a hacking conference that The Discovery Channel was legally pressured into canceling one of the show's episodes. He claims that the episode, which was going to tackle the security and reliability of the RFID (Radio Frequency... |
4 September 2008
11:16 GMT |
|
|
Usually the reading of multiple radio frequency identification tags, or RFID's, is made sequentially so that any collision between transmitted information is removed. For example, while dealing with high amounts of tags the RFID reader sends a radio signal to the passive tags. The strongest signal received back ... |
6 May 2008
10:53 GMT |
|
|
Nowadays, most shopping malls and supermarkets use the Universal Product Code in order to identify a certain product, albeit the use of the bar code implies that all shoppers must stand in line to have the bought products scanned, which also requires a lot of time and patience, something not all costumers have. The R... |
10 April 2008
09:54 GMT |
|
|
Every credit card has personally identifiable information inserted into the magnetic strip on the back, but hacking it so far proved a task too difficult for most malevolent figures to even attempt. RFID security guru Adam Laurie has come up with a test program named CHaP.py, specifically designed to read the chip an... |
21 February 2008
09:57 GMT |
|
|
A small British startup has announced an innovative security technology that will give thieves a hard time. The built-in security device can block access to the computer, or even destroy all the stored data should the notebook be moved from its initial location.Virtuity is a small company that has not produced anythi... |
19 February 2008
11:34 GMT |
|
|
Paranoid PC users, rejoice, as Apricorn has released another extraordinary device that allows you to keep your data at your fingertip. Literally. I have been talking a lot lately about data encryption and hard drive security but the Aegis Bio takes it to another level. RFID protected enclosures are extremely convenie... |
23 January 2008
07:03 GMT |
|
|
Sharkoon has announced an update to the Swift-Case line up of external hard drive enclosures, that would allow users to take advantage of the popular RFID encryption technology. The majority of the computer users are careless when it comes to securing personal data, because they either don't know how to do it or... |
21 January 2008
04:10 GMT |
|
|
Preventing unauthorized users from accessing the data on a hard-disk drive is one of the oldest preoccupations in the IT industry. Data security has become more and more important since the mobile computers started kicking in.It was pretty far-fetched to be afraid that someone would break into your office and steal ... |
17 January 2008
09:09 GMT |
|
|
The first company that seems to be really interested in the environment - Nokia - conceived a new Eco Sensor Concept mobile phone. Last week the Finnish handset manufacturer presented its new 'green' vision in the form of the Nokia 3110 Evolve version, a mobile device with bio-covers made from more than 50%... |
12 December 2007
05:33 GMT |
|
|
Although several issues related to its security have been raised over the past few years, RFID remains one of the most promising short-distance communication technologies, which can be used for providing customers with a whole range of product or service information retrieved from RFID tags. And proving its interest ... |
27 November 2007
13:41 GMT |
|
|
RFID is becoming an increasingly important technology nowadays, as it can prove extremely helpful in tracking certain items, providing identification data (as for example, biometric passports) and much more. And in order to boost the larger-scale integration of RFID solutions, the Japanese Hitachi company has develop... |
29 October 2007
04:21 GMT |
|
|
Attention pupils, you're being watched! According to Engadget and Timesonline, British children are going to be tracked down by micro-chips, embedded in their uniforms in a trial at a secondary school from the UK.These freaky-to-think-about-devices are going to be used for the surveillance of any pupil movement.... |
23 October 2007
05:33 GMT |
|
|
Radio-frequency identification ( RFID for short) is an automatic identification protocol that is based on data transmitted by a number of wireless capable devices using RFID tags or transponders. Such a transponder can be inserted into almost any kind of object ranging from electronic components like computers and ce... |
11 August 2007
07:37 GMT |
|
|
In the near future, shopping may become a lot easier and will no longer mean that people must carry money or credit cars and fear theft. With the help of RFID technology, new tags placed on individual items in stores could mean you can just walk in the store, choose your product and walk out with them, without stopp... |
19 May 2007
05:13 GMT |
|
|
Car tracking and RFID tech go hand in hand. This is probably why the government of the tiny island of Bermuda is going to stir up a hornet's nest by changing the way in which residents use their vehicles. A RFID system will be installed on every single car, truck, and motorcycle in the country. That's about... |
9 May 2007
13:31 GMT |
|
|
I'm sure you're familiar with the "kleptonarcissist" buzzword. Anyway, just in case you're not familiar with it, a kleptonarcissist is someone so vain that he/she compulsively steals glances of himself/herself in any nearby reflective surface-mirror. It makes more sense if you read the definition witho... |
8 May 2007
04:14 GMT |
|
|
It's safe to assume that it's impossible to feel happy when loosing something, right? Wrong! You can still be relaxed when you find out you lost your keys. How about if I tell you that you can find all your missing items by using a remote control (as long as you don't loose the remote control itself)?... |
24 April 2007
15:36 GMT |
|
|
Yet another patent filing from Apple Inc. reveals the Mac-maker's intentions of simplifying wireless Wi-Fi networking by using RFID transceivers in routers. The patent filing is titled "RFID network arrangement" and documents a system in which a wireless router holds a RFID transceiver. This transceiver would ho... |
10 March 2007
05:16 GMT |
|
|
|
|
