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Security systems provider companies witnessed a sudden action in terms of both orders/enquiries as well as stock changes in the last 3 days ... and internationally. It also offers Radio Frequency Identification Device (RFID) solutions, smart cards ... , library management, application tracking, vehicle tracking, warehouse management, work-in-progress [more...]

Date: 2008-12-02 03:15:56

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Arphid Watch: Trouble in the Emergency Room

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/jaaj-eif061908.php ((( ... frequency identification (RFID) in everyday life include security access cards, electronic toll ... These doctors took some RFID scanners into a room full of dainty, sensitive medical gizmos [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 15:13:23

Someday you WILL want your phone swiped. To make a purchase.

No, I don't mean swiped as in stolen, although that might be a good way for me to get Barb's iPhone replaced since it has a cracked screen ... here but I don't leave home without my American Express card. It has RFID functionality built ... or Near Field Communications technology so it can act as an RFID tag. Interestingly, it also [more...]

Date: 2008-10-07 12:59:21

RFID Sniffer: Sniffs out tagged objects

I thought only my dog Brownie had great sniffing power but here is RFID Sniffer which doesn't sniff bones ... : Shaw selects ODIN technologies to design and install a radio frequency identification (RFID ... can detect 13.56 MHz RFID tags deployed generally in case of bank cards, loyalty cards etc. The kit [more...]

Date: 2008-11-12 03:57:34

Yes Bank Uses RFID to Personalize Service

Yes Bank Uses RFID to Personalize Service The Indian bank is issuing RFID-enabled cards to wealthy clients so they can be recognized and promptly served when they enter its branches. DOD Awards Passive RFID Contract to Six Vendors ... at RFID Journal LIVE! Europe › Zoomius Takes Motorsports Timing on a New Course › DOD [more...]

Date: 2008-10-13 17:47:16

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

Changing for the Better

Its been a couple of months since I last updated this blog so I wanted to do a quick post letting folks know what I've been up to and what is ... are positive. About six months ago I changed jobs. I'm now a senior consultant at SecureState where ... researching a number of topics including the security of RFID prox cards used in many access control [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 03:29:00

Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management

Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management Domino ISG provides real-time traffic control that eliminates the delays, errors, and omissions of manual tracking. Asset tracking systems automatically monitors movements at... Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards MIKOH Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 04:02:35

"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

RFID and Mobililty

File under: technologies you’ve heard about, but aren’t sure what the possibilities are. Radio Frequency Identifier (RFID) ... key card with you all the time. If you commute through a toll booth you might have an RFID transponder ... s an RFID transponder that sends a one-way signal to an in-store security system, saying “hey, I’m here [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 22:45:52

Weekly Newsletter - Issue 62

* News about Mint Elyssa x64 RC1 released If any of you have ideas for how we can make Mint more known please feel free to leave a comment ... Password Recovery’ Services may be crackers that gets you in deep trouble Researchers discover PDF ... GHz New ‘On/Off Switch’ Protects RFID Cards From Hacks Asus ships software cracker on recovery [more...]

Date: 2008-09-28 18:21:55

NXT nibblets

I keep ending up with a list of things to mention, but not enough time to do it (or not enough material for a full post) ... involved. Take a look, and enjoy the music & presentation. HALE YouTube Mission Steve Hassenplug ... robots that casual observers can "program" by using RFID cards swiped by a sensor on the robot [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 12:54:04

From The Poker Table To Greeting Cards? The RFID Future

The story of the technologist who crafted an elaborate RFID poker table, complete with an HD camera to stream real-time games globally, is interesting mostly in how he attached ultra-thin and extra-flexible RFID tags to each playing ... it aside, the concept is interesting in potential future retail uses, assuming that the per-tag [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 06:40:21

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

Insecure by design

Would you design a system which you know is vulnerable to hacking?  However, the fact is that secure systems do cost more than their non-secure ( ... an RFID-based cards used for prepaying highway tolls in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the barcode based system used by the National Library Board in Singapore. Both systems can be easily broken [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 08:19:07

Passports....

Mom and I have to renew our US Passports soon, before the expire. Since we are both such intrepid world travelers, of course ... in a remarkly efficient online form that creates a .pdf file for you to print out and sign. Get your 4 passport ... . But it really does include an RFID chip in the card, so they can "scan" you and look you up even before [more...]

Date: 2009-01-09 03:24:00

List of mobile services and limitations

I believe that mobile is one of the most revolutionary thing happened in our lifetime ... - paper/photo, OCR - Barcode Reader Object Location Identification - RFID Dictionary/Encyclopedia ... /smart card) for uses such as parking lot fee, AVM, Pay any merchant such as autowala E-Books Teaching [more...]

Date: 2008-06-18 07:03:39

Enhanced licenses a privacy risk, says civil liberties coalition

Toronto, Ontario - Ontario’s proposed enhanced driver’s licenses (EDLs) and enhanced photo I.D ... The current DHS standard for the RFID chip on enhanced I.D. cards is without security protections ... . cards are a waste of money, pose significant privacy risks, and establish a de facto national [more...]

Date: 2008-10-21 00:13:30

MBTA drops lawsuit against MIT subway hackers

The Massachusetts Bay Transit Authority (MBTA) has dropped its federal case against three MIT researchers, “the subway hackers” ... at Defcon. It’s a shame no one ever saw it because it covers a lot of interesting ground. A PDF ... and physical security. Our favorites by far were using GNU Radio to sniff the RFID card’ [more...]

Date: 2008-12-23 16:00:24

e.Magiciens 2008

Tinker.it! had the great pleasure of helping curate the Lab space for the 10th edition of the e ... some physical challenges of their own through games. - The Dreaming Pillow project which i really loved ... as part of the event, we put together a voting infrastructure to allow visitors to vote, using RFID cards [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 18:32:53

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

Eye Scans and Fingerprints=Future of Payment?

Scientists at UK based Barclaycard are developing futuristic biometric technologies that will make paying with body part scans mainstream. Contactless payment has gained in popularity recently, with RFID cards and key fobs leading ... to plastic in the next five to 10 years with new technologies to take its place emerging now. It could [more...]

Date: 2008-09-10 15:53:47

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

Atmel Adds GUI to ATA2270-EK1 125-kHz RFID Evaluation Kit

Atmel® Corporation (Nasdaq: ATML), announced a significant enhancement to the ATA2270-EK1 125-kHz RFID demo kit ... of Atmel's RFID solutions used in access control, industrial automation, loyalty cards, anti ... of the most suitable RFID solution without advanced knowledge of RF engineering have been made even [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 21:18:34

Retailer Must Have: Motorola Sparrow

Fast Company had a great product showcase about the new Motorola Sparrow recently ... one up after detecting a loyalty card or other relevant RFID tag. Want to win brownie points with a shopper ... bought Symbol Technologies, a maker of bar-code scanners, and asked the New York — based design [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 22:55:08

Charge it to My Mobile Phone

With Christmas just around the corner chances are we’re all going to be dashing around the shops trying our best to remember which album Dad’s been ... of multiple cards. Well with recent developments in RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) soon we may be able to make payments using our mobile phones. These RFID enabled chips can be embedded [more...]

Date: 2008-08-24 16:16:04

Jive: Social Networking for Seniors

Concerned that your grandparents won’t make it to your party because they didn’t get your facebook invitation? Fear not, sort-of. Introducing Jive. Designed by Ben Arent for his senior design project, Jive is a platform that aims to bring ... . To add one another as “friends,” users exchange friend-pass cards, which contains an RFID chip [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 16:48:06

Intelligent Cash Registers Concept

Intelligent Cash Registers ConceptIt makes perfect sense for cash registers to get smart sooner in the future, ... at the National Retail Federation show in New York on Sunday, and it is the system that they're ... functions seamlessly with Intel's latest processors. It will feature RFID card compatibility and rely [more...]

Date: 2009-01-12 00:41:00

Re-inventing the Shopping Experience: Intel’s Funky Check-out

Maybe Intel is learning a few tricks from Apple: design counts. The company is introducing sleek new self-serve check-out terminals. The kiosks work with the customer’s RFID loyalty card and provides in-store incentives and recommendations. One key feature is they use 90% less energy than standard cash registers. Green [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 02:15:38

Hey BART - why keep pushing EZ Rider when Translink is coming soon?

A lot of people today complain that BART's trains are a little dirtier, the employees are overpaid, the BART board is a bunch of nutjobs, ... ... so the EZ rider pilot program was the genius idea of BART officials to give RFID fare cards to passengers ... over.Even after installation of new BART vending machines and gates, the plastic fare cards still [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 06:07:00

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 ... card of Vegas launching a corresponding picture on the computer (lame), a tagged toy car bringing [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 13:10:00

Taspo rules bring retail back to tobacco

Last summer, the Japanese tobacco industry imposed a rather large burden on itself by requiring the use of Taspo (tobacco passport), an RFID identification and payment card, for adults to purchase tobacco from vending machines ... campaigns, free gifts, and other benefits are simple with small retail spaces. Of course [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 04:54:35

New Labour’s database nation

Cory Doctorow is one of this country’s most valuable immigrants ... internal passports and the press will say, “If you don’t like it, you don’t have to live here – it’ ... of a universal rollout of mandatory biometric RFID identity cards. What happens to us now will happen [more...]

Date: 2008-10-09 14:08:02

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

ID Cards can endanger your life.

Whilst terrorism is in itself heinous, the fact that they were looking for certain nationals is very worrying, and if ever there was a reason why a British national should never, ever carry an RFID enabled Passport or ID Card around with them, this has to be it. [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 23:13:53

How Do Radio Tagged Cards Work?

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) systems have three components: a small silicon microchip attached to an antenna; a reader and a computer database. The RFID tags themselves can be as small as half a millimeter square, the size of a tiny seed. Some are thin enough to be embedded in paper. Most tags today [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 15:54:58

Shibuya Station pop-up marketing stands

Tokyo is certainly plastered with ads from top to bottom, but ad culture in Japan is still quite traditional ... is a feat in itself. wonda zeromax coffee japan We haven’t blogged this product yet because we weren’ ... with Taspo, the RFID enabled ID card that’s required tobacco purchases from vending machines [more...]

Date: 2008-10-31 05:53:09

Virtual currencies stifled by regulation?

(via panGloss, The Register and Out-Law) Roll back the time to 1999 ... with a combination of smart cards, RFID chips and mobile phones. The European Commission, in a characteristic ... that the current directive lacks legal certainty. First of all the definition of electronic money [more...]

Date: 2008-10-17 09:01:54

Hazard Factory’s Jelly Bean Gun

The Jelly Bean Gun is not a whole lot different to any of the endless variety of launchers out there, ... like a potentially dangerous project, so if you don’t know what you are doing it is probably best to admire ... You (1) Videos: Fixing the X360 Three Rings of Death (0) Video: How to Remove an RFID Chip From a Card (0) [more...]

Date: 2008-06-30 15:07:34

Japan '08: Washinomiya Shrine

On our first full day in Japan, we decided to visit Washinomiya Jinja, a Shinto shrine in Saitama Prefecture, north of Tokyo, ... at a vending machine. You don't even have to take the card out; it has an RFID chip that generally works if you nonchalantly wave your wallet over the reader. Probably the most important single piece [more...]

Date: 2008-11-11 22:07:00

Informative Graphics Brings Role-Based Redaction

Read More... | 4062 bytes more | Score: 0) Page 1 of 125 (1243 total stories) ... 902MHz RFID UHF Paddle Reader w/Bluet · Promos Canada Offers USB Business Cards · ResellersPanel ... at Breckenridge! · About UHF RFID Reader [more...]

Date: 2008-11-24 17:24:31

Links for 2008-08-13

Federal Circuit Says Open Source License Conditions are Enforceable as Copyright Conditions : ... Classic RFID cards; really fantastic walkthrough of the process. I’m glad to see that my smartcard work on other systems a few years back would have defeated many of these attacks ;) (tags: mifare rfid [more...]

Date: 2008-08-13 22:05:03

Face Recognition Vending Machines Sell Cigarettes to Magazine Pics, Yen Portraits

Last May, we were acquainted with the Fuijitaka Child Check System technology equipped on age-verifying vending machines selling cigarettes in Japan. These machines fitted with RFID cards can allegedly recognize which ... to pay for the packs--how convenient! Fujitaka, the manufacturer of these age-verifying vending [more...]

Date: 2008-07-10 02:59:33

ORG 3rd Birthday

The UK Open Rights Group has now been around for 3 years, and they have released their 2008 Review of Activities ... . Surveillance, ID cards, RFID passports, all are being touted as necessary to keep us secure. But when it’ [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 19:09:44

RFID company sues college researchers for exposing defects

This another ugly trend in big business: www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=printArticleBasic&articleId= 9109139 Chip maker sues to quash research on RFID smart card security flaws Researcher says chip hack could crack open 2 billion cards, By Sharon Gaudin [more...]

Date: 2008-07-25 10:24:00

MoneyPenny

Author: Carlos Cossio The MoneyPenny is an electronic purse application with RFID for a contactless card with an operating distance of up to 10 cm. The LM3S811-based terminal features an LCD that shows the date and time and prompts the user to enter the desired payment amount on the keypad. After transactions are complete, the log file [more...]

Date: 2008-11-02 18:52:24

IT Planet Security Cameras

If you are an entrepreneur opening up a retail store, bank, or just an office, ... has a variety of other products in the categories of label printing, ID card printing, point of sale, RFID, and security systems. Check out IT Planet today for all your security needs. Bookmark [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 00:00:21

Ontario's "enhanced driver's licence"

http://www.infowars.com/?p=6018 Michael GeistThe StarNovember 17, 2008 This week, the Ontario legislature will resume debate on Bill 85, ... . As the U.S. increased identity card requirements for entry into the country (passports are now required at most ... technologies including a radio frequency identification device (RFID) within the card, is the [more...]

Date: 2008-11-19 02:27:00

RMS Adds a Little Oyster Sauce

A few weeks back, there was much rejoicing in the open source world over the following story: ... consultant with Deloitte, at the Open Source Forum event in London. "The hosting was on a proprietary ... government of the UK, this is like a dream come true. Since the card contains an RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-06-09 14:22:31

Intel Cash Register Knows Who You Are, What You Want (Wired)

(Wired.com) Asking the question: “Do you know who I am? ... you with ads and promotions. Flash an RFID store loyalty card, and your purchase history pops up — ... the counter screen to life with their badge; images of your items materialize. So do related products [more...]

Date: 2009-01-11 16:14:34

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