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I received a new Nexus card by registered mail yesterday. It came with a little envelope in which I'm supposed to store the card when not in use. The envelope's interior has been metalicized.Keep the card in its protective sleeve at all times unless you are presenting it at the border. This will help prevent the RFID chip from being read [more...]

Date: 2009-01-01 12:49:00

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snapper: what about privacy?

I have this conflict when it comes to Snapper, a kind of internal argument between a technology geek and a privacy geek. It goes a bit like this: Technology geek: It’s so cool. I want one. I just wave it past the reader! It comes in different form factors. And I can get a reader for it that will plug into my PC. It’s the Future™! [more...]

Date: 2008-07-23 04:37:19

What you need to know about protecting your personal information, and how the new enhanced drivers licence can put you at risk

In an age where we are constantly having to adjust to new technologies that are often touted as “time saving” and “convenient”, ... up for the right to try it out.  A reader emailed a link to a recent story detailing the risks ... of having a passport. The licences contain an RFID chip- radio frequency identification technology [more...]

Date: 2008-12-09 16:27:57

NFC-Near Field Communication

This might not be a hot finding,but I found it to be an interesting topic when I came across it,over at Nokia Upcoming Innovations ... : card emulation: the NFC device behaves like an existing contactless card reader mode: the NFC ... as an NFC tag, for example, contactless smart card for payments replacing your credit card or electronic [more...]

Date: 2008-11-10 02:46:43

New RFID Chips Could Pose Threat To Data Protection

(Crealis) -- A research article published in the current issue of the International Journal of Intellectual Property Management suggests that Big ... regarding data protection are not addressed in the design of new RFID applications. Radio-frequency identification (RFID) chips can be found tagging everything from groceries and clothing [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 17:27:11

Chains of trust, questionable origins

If I wanted to print US Dollars at home, I’d need the printing equipment, the paper stock on which to do it, and the magical ink ... in the case of identification systems: passports and REAL ID driver’s licenses. Consider this article from the Washington Times.  The raw materials to make a new RFID passport, namely, the blank [more...]

Date: 2008-10-23 13:47:54

The Ticket Booths Of The Future (More Interesting Than It Sounds)

Ahhh the future, a time when we will fly to work, cloning will have wiped out hunger (ohhh controversial) ... mobile phone handsets in Japan are equipped with a RFID chip which allows them to send a unique code ... at all really. He’s an RFID (radio frequency identification) reading ticket dispenser made by NEC [more...]

Date: 2008-11-13 16:36:28

Opening an Oyster with Crapto1

p2pnet news view | Security:- “A decisive breakthrough has been made in the cryptanalysis of the Crypto1 encryption algorithm of the MiFare Classic RFID system used in many contactless travel payment systems including the Transport for London Oyster card,” said Heise Online back in April, going on: “According to a newly published report [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 12:58:40

‘Chipping’ of Humans No Longer the Stuff of Novels; Use of RFIDs Becoming Commonplace in America

View the article here Like I've said before, you can stick this chip where the sun doesn't shine ... be a good idea, but it lays the groundwork for later RFID tagging on children and elderly for “safety ... to electronically track the movements of students using Radio Frequency Identification Devices (RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 10:17:00

Popular New Community Website Launches Confession

Read More... | 6091 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 131 (1303 total stories) ... RFID Reader with RRJupiter RF Module Inside · Legal Advantage LLC Goes Green · Frequency (HF) RFID Reader / Writer with Antenna · Find Me Sign Me Talent Network Hits the Web · New Senior Management [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 16:29:57

RON CARNEY: A solution for customer service and operational improvement increases sales 10-60%

Nov. 20, 2008 – We like the fact Bartronics America – a company founded from a solution developed for NASCAR – has packaged that solution for others ... have one of these POS platforms, it is a simple matter of adding an RFID reader, a little bit of software ... without "selling them RFID." Ron Carney, President and CEO, explains. You offer a helpful [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 18:03:21

Scoring my 2008 Tech Predictions

I’m about the least unopinionated guy I know.  362 days ago, I made a whole bunch of predictions.  Let’s see how I scored… TV Technology Every major cable company will increase it’s rates by more than 3%. Nobody will complain, and our government will (again) fail to protect us from them [more...]

Date: 2008-12-27 22:57:45

D-Day for RFID-based transit card systems

NOTE FROM CLEMENT: RFID has been in the news quite a lot over the past six months and rightly so ... . I invite you to visit my tester website and look at some of the videos demonstrating attacks on RFID: http ... of the algorithm (PDF) 1 . "Combining these two pieces of information, attacks can now be implemented [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 15:37:15

#25C3 Security Conference recordings online

'Creating a rogue root CA certificate)! Read on below for details. Presentation 1: I started with Not Soy Fast: Genetically Modified, Resource Greedy, and coming to a Supermarket Near You. Soy has been a healthy source of proteins for some time, but genetically modified soy comes with a price (in more than one way) [more...]

Date: 2009-01-03 13:42:40

Newer Credit Cards Are Less Secure

Every Tuesday, Smithee presents an article about his own experiences with credit cards and observations about the credit card industry ... s supposed to let you tap the card against a reader instead of sliding it through the reader? (Think ... . A few weeks ago I was the victim of debit card fraud. In my case the system worked very well [more...]

Date: 2008-12-30 12:58:24

I Stand Corrected. There Are RFID Cards in the U.S.

Yesterday I posted a report that a Boston TV station was reporting on the security risks surrounding Smart Card (RFID) technology ... in the U.S. and asked for reader feedback to show me that RFID was, in fact, being deployed ... with semantics. These are not Chip and PIN cards. These are RFID cards. They claim to be safer than regular [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 02:44:51

Industrial technology solutions

Elatic serves the best services in the field of industrial computing through various networks of distributors worldwide ... industry of chip card reader, Elatic produces the known PCMCIA Reader or PC Card for laptops. Usage of this kind of reader will give you the unlimited possibilities in line with business aspects whether [more...]

Date: 2008-07-03 17:29:06

Nabaztag's Violet debuts "Mirror" general-purpose home RFID reader

Filed under: Peripherals While we’ll always know Violet for its iconic bunnies, the company is branching out into a more direct RFID application. The Mirror RFID reader is a USB-pluggable little platter that can read RFID tags and launch ... electronics new medical technologies free gizmo project video games imac microsoft gadgets gaming usb [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 08:36:22

Researchers Reveal Security, Privacy Vulnerabilities in ‘Enhanced’ Driver’s Licenses

Researchers Reveal Security, Privacy Vulnerabilities in ‘Enhanced’ Driver’s Licenses November 4th, ... , it is a technically straightforward matter to copy the data from a Passport Card’s RFID tag into another, off ... an individual’s citizenship status. They are also equipped with radio frequency identification (RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 09:12:38

Tikitag Turns Wal-Mart Inventory Tech into Fun

RFID and NFC aren’t really new, but up til now, the most exciting use for the tech ... , readers or packages containing both. Then it’s up to you to either use or create applications to take [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 03:23:00

Reader Mail #62

I liked this thread on the Mental Militia. Heller (from Heller vs. DC) applied for a gun permit. His application was rejected. That is really weird, since the Supreme Court specifically ordered that he be granted a gun permit. He didn't bring his gun with him when he applied for the permit, lest he be arrested for illegal possession of a gun [more...]

Date: 2008-08-12 16:25:07

"Enhanced" Licence May Enhance Privacy and Security Risks

This week the Ontario legislature will resume debate on Bill 85, proposed legislation that could lead to the creation of an "enhanced drivers licence" ... (RFID) within the card, is the outcome of that work. While the enhanced card will be optional ... as a photo card for non-drivers - has received little public attention despite the urgent concerns [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 09:25:14

Fraud Takes A Toll on Bay Area

Fraud has taken it's toll on the Public Transportation Industry which has seen a flurry of actvity regarding recent hacks on their RFID based card ... ...You'/ve Been Hacked!") Now it appears that the RFID based FasTrak, I-Pass and E-Z Pass Tollway systems ... to identify the FasTrak wireless transponders carried in cars can be copied or overwritten with [more...]

Date: 2008-08-25 09:23:00

Chipping’ of Humans No Longer the Stuff of Novels; Use of RFIDs Becoming Commonplace in America

More and more, George Orwell’s 1984 becoming reality—babies, students, elderly being ‘chipped’ ... one child in 2005. This may be a good idea, but it lays the groundwork for later RFID tagging ... Identification Devices (RFID). Microchips will be attached to the students’ backpacks next year. The American [more...]

Date: 2008-07-15 08:05:49

TechCrunch Euro Tour 08: Yes, even Belgium has startups

A couple of weeks ago I headed over to Belgium as part of my ongoing TechCrunch Euro Tour, to get a taste of the local web/mobile entrepreneur community (BTW, come to the London and Helsinki events soon). I hooked-up with another TechCrunch writer, Robin Wauters, who had kindly arranged a TechCrunch Belgium meetup in Gent [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 11:13:46

Security News Roundup: Programming tools for cracking Mifare published

This week’s security events include news of the release of OpenOffice 2.4.2 to address critical vulnerabilities in its 2.4.x branch, a finding that corporate security policies are ineffective, exploits for a just-patched Microsoft vulnerability already out in the wild, and release of actual programming tools for cracking Mifare Classic [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 04:16:11

Panasonic Toughbook CF-H1 Mobile Clinical Assistant: Video Demos

Panasonic have officially announced the Toughbook CF-H1 Medical Tablet PC they demonstrated at the IDF in August ... for employee identification and an RFID reader. There’s also a GPS receiver, WiFi a/b/g/n, Bluetooth ... We say “primary” because there are other methods of input: a barcode reader, for instance, that allows [more...]

Date: 2008-11-04 17:44:06

Like the Titanic

August 21, 2008 · Filed under Airport security, Biometric identification, ... Reader - well, not sure whether to laugh or be REALLY worried. The passport scanning software ... the passports used simple equipment: a publicly available programming code; his own software; £40 card reader [more...]

Date: 2008-08-21 03:00:33

New Contactless Cards Might Have On/Off Switch

A U.K. firm has developed an on/off “switch” for RFID cards that could protect cardholders from being hacked. The cardholder activates the RFID transmission by squeezing the card between his thumb ... into a smart card during the lamination process. When compressed, it acts as an RFID signal conductor. “ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 05:07:42

Convenience and Security Boost Payment Card Industry

The Green Sheet 2.0 :: NewswireWith card companies offering benefits such as redeemable reward points, and cash-back offers, ... cards is expected to drive up the market for contactless debit cards and RFID smart cards. However ... customers are being beguiled into using their cards for payment of various products and services [more...]

Date: 2008-09-02 09:28:00

Notes from CCC 2008

While attending CCC 2008, I was making notes, as usual (see DIMVA, DeepSec) ... the data Security Failures in Smart Card Payment systems UK process: card reports account #, … ... for a fall-back transaction with a cloned card = PIN entry device should be temper-proof, are certified [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 15:17:17

Make Your Own RFID Tag Sniffer

Hacking radio frequeny identification (RFID) has been gaining popularity due its increased usage. There have been several great RFID projects over the last couple of years (RFID skimmer and RFID Racket Reader to name a few). You can even pick RFID experimental kits from Sparkfun, ThinkGeek [more...]

Date: 2008-11-18 19:15:02

Hacker tells all about how to exploit Mifare Classic vulnerability

The cat is out of the bag. A full implementation of the algorithm to break the already compromised Mifare Classic RFID implementation has been published and is now available for download (pdf) from the Internet. According to RFID researcher ... out from now on: There are at least 60 or so major citywide RFID implementations that rely [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 11:35:08

2008 Terrorism

As 2008 comes to a close we must look back at America's security and terrorism in general around the world ... , gaping holes in our security. Dave Gaubatz* comments on the recent Department of Homeland Security's ... the report itself to be a national security threat for America ??? more importantly for the children [more...]

Date: 2008-12-31 01:13:07

Order Auto Dealer Services Online

Read More... | 2639 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 130 (1292 total stories) ... · Hyperwebenable.Com Launches New Blog Service · GAO Launches 13.56MHz HF Fixed RFID Reader/Writer ... at Dallas Fashion · Star Performer - Dreamajax Technologies Pvt Ltd · DAILY RFID Adds HF RFID Reader/Writer [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 16:14:20

RFID Robotic Chair: Your constant companion in the library

rfid-robotic-chair.jpg If you are an old person and an avid reader at the same time then you would surely feel discomfort standing among the book ... surely thank RFID a hundred thousand times. Here is an RFID robotic chair which has been designed by Jelte van Geest and the good thing about this chair is that when you swipe an RFID library card [more...]

Date: 2008-06-16 14:04:05

RFID, Privacy and the Surveillance Society

If incorporating personal details into an RFID (radio-frequency identification) ... of everyday life. RFID tags are small computer chips connected to miniature antennae that can be fixed ... and civil liberties: * Hidden placement of tags. RFID tags can be embedded into/onto objects [more...]

Date: 2008-09-17 13:40:25

Will Voice Prints Work For Payment Authorization?

Will Voice Prints Work For Payment Authorization? A UK company is pushing retailers to use voice-recognition to authenticate purchases over the phone and online. The Voice Commerce Group (VCG)'s Voice Transact package has consumers call the service, quote a pre-arranged product code and then a series of digits dictated by the automated system [more...]

Date: 2008-06-27 05:19:04

French Passengers may have the option for USB tickets

“This system involves the use of Weneo ID Smart, a USB card that gives the passenger the power of paying for a ticket before he or she arrives at ... as the passenger does not forget his or her USB card, the fare will be deducted from it via RFID ... the station. All a user needs to do is plug in the USB card onto their computer [more...]

Date: 2008-12-14 17:25:38

Panasonic unveils Toughbook CF-U1!

The Panasonic Toughbook SF-U1 isn’t for everyone but for those who need something like this, you can beat it ... mobile broadband, integrated camera, fingerprint scanner, GPS, barcode or RFID readers Optional ... treatment LED backlighting Intel Wireless Wi-Fi Link 5100 series (802.11a/g/draft-n) Bluetooth v2.0 [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 19:01:36

Simply Supplements Launch New Simplyvalue

Read More... | 3968 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 128 (1276 total stories) ... Blog Service · GAO Launches 13.56MHz HF Fixed RFID Reader/Writer · Gucci Debuts Limited Edition ... - Dreamajax Technologies Pvt Ltd · DAILY RFID Adds HF RFID Reader/Writer DL8033 · Get Rewarded [more...]

Date: 2008-11-27 17:22:29

Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise

Chip Implants To Avoid Identity Frauds? By Mary Wise Posted by: admin In: ... . However it is said that its pay system, based on radio frequency identification (RFID) technology ... of the owner’s interests? Not So New RFID tags are becoming popular, especially with those companies [more...]

Date: 2009-01-07 04:55:12

RFID tinkering kit

Radio frequency identification tags are not the most secure things in the world ... in concealed locations. Hide readers in an equal number of places around my house. Then, when you put ... lair… For added security, one might put the last reader in the bookshelf itself, and the last tag [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 22:44:17

TechEd 08 - see you there - RFID and Workflows....

 Register - here Folks I hope you're heading to TechEd this year - it's a brand new breed! Why....???? ... RFID interactive capabilities. rfidtag Sample card TechEd tag It all started ... Because myself and my team are covering the entire event with RFID tags, we'll give you tags [more...]

Date: 2008-08-08 09:48:29

MAX 2008 - Pre-event Summary

MAX 2008 - Pre-event Summary Written on 16 November 2008 by Joshua Okay, the first day of Adobe MAX 2008 is winding down ... . Badges The badges got a technology upgrade this year, no bar codes this year, rather an RFID name ... be a fun project to grab an RFID reader and write up a quick AIR app (this *is* an Adobe conference after [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 04:04:41

What do you understand by RFID Readers?

Radio Frequency Identification also known as RFID has revolutionized our technology and made our life much simpler than earlier ... in the RFID transponder. Transponder is basically the thing which stores the information and sends ... the flexibility which is present in Radio Frequency Identification or RFID. Basically RFID belongs [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 20:09:20

News 10/24/08

From rbsavage3: "Re: HealthVault. Microsoft scores with Aetna e-records pact. As a member of Aetna and an employee of a large hospital system, I’m not sure I like this. I wonder what the community thinks." Link. The deal connects Aetna’s PHR to HealthVault and adds a connection in the other direction next year [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 02:13:07

Do-It-Yourself RFID Service Tikitag Launches In India; The Market, The Timing?

  tikitag Tikitag, a service that enables the launching of online applications by touching a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) or (NFC) ... to a computer and 10 RFID tags to stick to devices. So you just need to swipe the tag over the reader ... lies if the fact that it is interoperable, and can be used (apparently) with any NFC or RFID reader [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 03:02:16

Impressions On The Upcoming NFC Technology - Your Mobile As Your Wallet Or Ticket Or…

Fresh from a Q&A on three of Nokia’s upcoming innovations - Near Field Communication (NFC) ... your credit cards, loyalty cards, and travel card all in one place: inside your mobile phone. Basically ... as your credit card and so on. Interesting and very desirable. So the first question that comes [more...]

Date: 2008-11-21 16:05:40

USB Ticket for Train

USB Ticket for Train • 09.12.08 train Riding the train is always a time consuming process of waiting to buy a ticket, ... will be deducted from it via RFID reader or from an attendant with a handheld tool. So far ... . This system involves the use of Weneo ID Smart, a USB card that gives the passenger the power of paying [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 10:20:24

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