Mythbusters RFID hacking episode canned by credit card company lawyers
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsAlthough it's no secret that RFID is easily hacked (see: train passes, passports, credit cards, one billion other cards, etc.) it's still ... most RFID implementations but was shut down by lawyers from "American Express, Visa, Discover [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 16:08:52
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How to hack RFID-enabled credit cards for $8
A number of credit card companies now issue credit cards with embedded RFIDs (radio frequency ID tags), with promises of enhanced security and speedy transactions. But on today’s episode of Boing [more...]
Date: 2008-11-18 14:49:16
Create an RFID blocking Copper Wallet
The reasons I decided to build this wallet are because of my new credit card, an AMEX Clear (amazing), which has an RFID tag, my school ID, and some research I did on how easily these really ... , and plugging it into your computer, then collecting all the credit card RFID information that goes [more...]
Date: 2008-09-13 05:20:46
Can your wallet protect your credit score?
You might already be one of the people using the new RFID credit cards ... with RFID is that it is relatively exposed to wireless identity theft. There is one company out there that is staying ahead of the curve - Kena Kai, a brand that Luggage Pros now offers, has created patent [more...]
Date: 2008-12-11 20:53:46
5 Good Mens Wallets To Buy For Christmas
The credit card slots on my old wallet are starting to get a little loose so I started searching around for some possible replacements to add to my ... from full wallet to complete money clip since it does have a spot to hold a couple credit cards and ID ... . It offers some protection for your RFID cards which seems to be getting more important [more...]
Date: 2008-12-03 16:17:06
Mythbusters Silenced by Credit Card Companies
A Mythbusters episode entailing an analysis of RFID tags (and how easily they're hacked) ... =1 QuoteAlthough it's no secret that RFID is easily hacked (see: train passes, passports, credit cards ... was all set to do a show exposing the weak security behind most RFID implementations but was shut down [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:36:24
Card Companies Insecure About Security
creditcards195.jpg My opinion I’m not a security expert but I’ve always suspected that RFID (think Chip and PIN credit cards) ... convincing. And remember that this is the same RFID that the Government wants to use for national ... this response when Adam Savage of Mythbusters is asked about RFID at the HOPE conference (Hackers On Planet [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:03:18
Check Me Out
The Motorola Sparrow was conceived to provide retail stores with a mobile point of sale device to solve increased service demands from consumers ... as you can. It combines a scanner, point of sale (POS) system, RFID, communication and credit card reading capabilities ... products are often rugged and obtrusive. If you’ve ever been to an Apple store, you [more...]
Date: 2008-08-07 22:37:14
Headline News - September 5, 2008
Get Rich Slowly: Credit Card Basics: Five Essential Skills for Mastering Plastic Official Obopay blog: ... plastic cash? Thailand: Financial transactions can be done via mobile phone CreditCards.com: Consumer Reports rates the best and worst of credit cards The Upcoming Technology of RFID For Contactless Access [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 13:52:58
Mythbusters gagged by credit card companies over RFID episode
Remember back in March, when I posted instructions on how to hack RFID credit cards and get all their information from a distance of up to 40' or more? Apparently Mythbusters was going [more...]
Date: 2008-12-30 15:51:00
PDC to present its innovative RFID products featuring cashless payment technology
LAS VEGAS, USA (AVING Special Report on ‘WWA Symposium & Trade Show’) ... screen and RFID reader/writer that allows patrons to load money using card, credit or debit cards onto ... — PDC presented innovative RFID products featuring cashless payment technology at the 28th WWA [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 06:42:22
Refurbished POS equipment
Point of sale products are extremely popular with businesses worldwide and have been found to generate excellent ROI to these businesses, ... this need. POS equipment could be used by retail establishments in the form of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) scanners, Credit card authorization terminals and the like. POS equipment could prove [more...]
Date: 2008-11-25 16:13:27
Sept. Scientific American: Dude, Where's My Privacy?
keyfob Gizmodo.com A new generation of RFID-enabled credit cards, like this Mastercard Paypass keyfob from Citibank, ... of privacy, to RFID chips that can track more than inventory. Here's an RFID chip reader used ... stranger than fiction in How RFID Tags Could Be Used [more...]
Date: 2008-08-22 17:18:58
Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards
Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards First credit card format intelligent ID card providing both long-range identification and read/write ... Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID Antennas Motorola VC6096 WWAN In-Vehicle/Fixed Mount Mobile Computer Psion Teklogix 7530 G2 Handheld Computer Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center [more...]
Date: 2008-11-07 19:19:51
Advertisers kill Mythbusters spy-chip story
p2pnet news view Cool | Advertising:- “Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities,” says a Boing Boing headline ... out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is,” suggests the text, in turn linking ... outgunned …’ In the video, “We were gonna do RFID and on several levels how hackable, how [more...]
Date: 2008-09-01 13:32:04
Nokia RFID Phones And Cashless Payments Are Ready *
Wise Up Journal 06.11.2008 The text below is from Nokia’s European site and it speaks for it’s self: credit cards, loyalty cards, and travel card details stored in your mobile phone allowing for “touch” purchases and file transfers. Convenient RFID tracking conveniently accessed by outside devices. Radio Frequency [more...]
Date: 2008-11-06 13:44:30
Nissan Helps Develop A Smart-Key Phone: Unlock and Start Your Car With A Call
I’m a bit of a futurist; I like to speculate about new technologies ... print full sized A4 paper from your phone via an extendable arm and you’ll be able to project high quality video onto a wall via a mini projector. Maybe eventually we’ll have credit card swipes or RFID [more...]
Date: 2008-09-26 18:08:31
Visa/Mastercard PayPass: A New Opportunity for Credit Theft…
***UPDATE: Mythbusters gagged by credit card companies from airing show describing how easily hackable RFID is - click here for video*** Opening a ... a transaction without signing a receipt, simply by swiping the card near a PayPass reader. Since the PayPass reader doesn’t require physical contact, I realized the card must transmit the cardholder’s [more...]
Date: 2008-08-09 11:05:27
Concept: Motorola Sparrow
Motorola, world’s leading cell phone manufacturer, has come up with a new concept of Motorola Sparrow, ... -functional handset: mobile point-of-service device, credit card reader, scanner, RFID (Radio-frequency identification) reader and, of course, a mobile phone. Similar Posts:Motorola Releases Q9e Motorola [more...]
Date: 2008-08-09 17:28:11
Motorola Sparrow: This Device Could Change Retail
The Motorola Sparrow is the newest and coolest thing in retail store marketing. The Motorola Sparrow is a very small device with a display that excepts credit cards, detects RFID, is WiFi ready, is capable of storing data, pictures etc, and can’t wait to be taken advantage [more...]
Date: 2009-01-07 07:49:22
RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need
RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need Radio Frequency Identification tags are everywhere. Inside these tiny tags is a predetermined code which can be read by an RFID reader. These are used in credit cards, badges, pet tracking just to name a few. Some people feel they create too muc… [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 02:23:22
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws
This is our 6,000th post on Wilson's Blogmanac. Thanks to Baz le Tuff for tipping me off about this story about RFID, ... before. The IDTechEx report Active RFID predicts that sales of active RFID systems, including tags ... s boom times ahead Sales of technologies based on RFID (Radio Frequency Identification, the automatic [more...]
Date: 2008-09-03 21:45:34
RFID News Roundup
RFID News Roundup Turkey's GarantiBank issues contactless credit card; Idesco unveils EPC Gen 2 reader with long read range; ... Effectiveness for Tracking IT Assets The company scientifically tested seven EPC Gen 2 RFID tags suitable for IT asset tracking, and analyzed five use cases, including employing the technology to manage [more...]
Date: 2008-09-25 19:04:26
RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need
RFID Tutorial - Everything You Need Radio Frequency Identification tags are everywhere. Inside these tiny tags is a predetermined code which can be read by an RFID reader. These are used in credit cards, badges, pet tracking just to name a few. Some people feel they create too muc… [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 02:23:22
Top Posts Of The Week [MythBusters]
Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws This Apology Letter From Southwest Is Refreshingly Honest And Informative What To Do When A Store Sells You Box [more...]
Date: 2008-09-05 20:35:00
Oyster on mobiles
Building Oyster technology into mobile phones seems like a good idea. Just about everyone is permanently wedded to their phone ... their wallet or purse and an Oyster card - the size of a normal credit card - is hardly an onerous burden ... , but not negligible. I’m not an expert, but shielding the RFID chip from the signals put out by mobiles [more...]
Date: 2008-09-24 18:49:46
links for 2008-08-31 (delicious broke, fixed themselves, so this is several days’ links)
2008 September 1 Links TECHNOLOGY WAR/CORPORATIONS/CENSORSIHP: Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities Nice to know that our “capitalist” system involves lawyers ensuring that the public has no clue that RFID is very insecure [more...]
Date: 2008-09-01 06:01:11
Prevention Measures and Instructions for Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee The theft of names, addresses, social security numbers (SSN) ... frequency identification (RFID) reader gathers information ... , bank account information, credit card numbers and other personal information, commonly known [more...]
Date: 2008-07-20 05:20:00
Prevention Measures and Instructions for Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee The theft of names, addresses, social security numbers (SSN) ... frequency identification (RFID) reader gathers information ... , bank account information, credit card numbers and other personal information, commonly known [more...]
Date: 2008-07-19 21:12:00
Prevention Measures and Instructions for Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee The theft of names, addresses, social security numbers (SSN) ... frequency identification (RFID) reader gathers information ... , bank account information, credit card numbers and other personal information, commonly known [more...]
Date: 2008-07-19 20:56:04
Prevention Measures and Instructions for Identity Theft
by Landon McGehee The theft of names, addresses, social security numbers (SSN) ... frequency identification (RFID) reader gathers information ... , bank account information, credit card numbers and other personal information, commonly known [more...]
Date: 2008-07-19 21:09:33
RFID TUTORIAL - EVERYTHING YOU NEED
Radio Frequency Identification tags are everywhere. Inside these tiny tags is a predetermined code which can be read by an RFID reader. These are used in credit cards, badges, pet tracking [more...]
Date: 2008-09-10 22:37:04
When Technology is Transparent
If you’ve ever had a “Toll Tag” - a device which lets you drive on toll roads without stopping to pay with cumbersome coins - you know the ... a grocery store that use RFID for auto-scanning items for checkout and bills your credit card on file ... t offer bar code scanning Motion backgrounds that stutter and skip behind song lyrics Microsoft [more...]
Date: 2008-11-20 19:17:04
The Friday Pimp Post: All Ages Edition
Good Morning! It's t-minus how many days until the holiday season? ... the bag. Why is this something someone might want? New U.S. passports, "smart" credit cards, and even some driver's licenses contain RFID chips with personal [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 14:00:31
Mythbusters RFID hacking episode canned by credit card company lawyers
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsAlthough it’s no secret that RFID is easily hacked ( ... reviews tech toys new apple products new technology high high tech modern electronics tv technology [more...]
Date: 2008-09-02 11:11:17
CONSUMER WATCH (Richmond Times-Dispatch)
How much info's on your RFID cards? It can happen undetected in an instant ... with a compatible reader device can skim information about you that's stored on the chip-embedded credit cards [more...]
Date: 2008-10-26 05:20:51
Wireless Growth Prompts New Cashless Payment Trial
by Laurie Sullivan Wireless subscribers racked up more than 1 ... trials with credit card companies like MasterCard and Visa. Rather than carry around a plastic card ... ,” says Julie England, VP/GM for TI’s radio frequency identification (RFID) business. “ [more...]
Date: 2008-09-12 11:31:43
CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security
mathfeel passes along a video in which Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery ... channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security. "Texas Instruments comes on a scheduled conference call along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover [more...]
Date: 2008-08-30 22:40:00
Robot Collects Dues
Japan is clearly miles ahead of everyone when it comes to electronic payment, with payment being made not via credit cards or cash, relying on e-money instead thanks to the versatile FeliCa RFID readers which are able to support ... games gizmo pc gadget reviews iphone toys video games gadget reviews [more...]
Date: 2008-11-12 23:36:24
Skimming not a violation of PCI DSS
It is important to remember that credit card skimming is an entirely different type of fraud than what the PCI DSS is meant to protect against ... skimming, which is a problem I don’t know anyone can solve. (Though the implementation of Chip-PIN plus ... the magnetic stripe or the RFID component, the attacker needs to be there physically. This reduces [more...]
Date: 2008-11-01 03:42:47
News 2008.09.04 Late Edition
Peratech Creates QTC Switch Technology for Contactless RFID Security Contactless RFID is well established for access control for buildings; simply wave your pass near the reader and the door opens. This technology is now being rolled out in the UK and around the World for so called 'BioMetric passports' and credit cards because [more...]
Date: 2008-09-04 23:33:33
Steal Credit Card Numbers Wireless using RFID
I am not very impressed with the lack of security that is used in the Credit Card RFID ... that a hacker would not give it a second look. When RFID empnanted credit cards become more popular I can see crooks setting up powerful directional antennas in busy hallways and grab thousands [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 13:36:22
Steal Credit Card Numbers Wireless using RFID
I am not very impressed with the lack of security that is used in the Credit Card RFID ... that a hacker would not give it a second look. When RFID empnanted credit cards become more popular I can see crooks setting up powerful directional antennas in busy hallways and grab thousands [more...]
Date: 2008-09-06 13:36:22
Improvised RFID Blocking Wallets: Preventing PayPass Skimming
Many credit card users do not realize that they have PayPass enabled RFID credit cards in addition to the new RFID enabled US Passports ... Omnikey Cardman 5321, a USB connected RFID reader, and using Adam Laurie's RFIDIOt package. Longer ... . These RFID enabled devices are easily read at distances compatible with casual contact [more...]
Date: 2008-11-21 22:30:00
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Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws ~The Consumerist Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID’s security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage. Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel [more...]
Date: 2008-09-01 14:19:59
Transparent Transistors to Bring Future Displays
Transparent Transistors to Bring Future DisplaysResearchers claim to have created the first prototype of a new design for semiconductors, ... for RFID tags, electronic bar codes and smart credit cards, which resemble ordinary credit cards ... , as well as flexible, while maintaining high performance levels," Marks said. "This opens the door [more...]
Date: 2007-07-11 12:40:00
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