In an increasingly cashless world, convenience comes at a cost. With the widespread use of RFID-enabled credit and debit cards, a new threat has emerged—digital pickpocketing. Without any physical ...

RFID and credit card skimming are still a valid threat at payment terminals, but other methods of skimming RFID signals ...

RFID credit cards are growing in popularity and have already been adopted by major credit card issuers. These cards use radio frequencies to allow the cardholder to pay at terminals by tapping their ...

What ever happened to all the hype over radio frequency identification (RFID)? Driven by Wal-Mart mandates and post-9/11 concerns, RFID was all the rage just after the turn of the century. Many people ...

Researchers at a major security firm have developed a blocking technique to ease privacy concerns surrounding controversial radio frequency identification technology. The labs at RSA Security on ...

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 and ...

This report has been researched and written by Vandagraf International in association with Product & Image Security Foundation and IPI Europe Limited. The project team consists of three highly ...

On our journey to better RFID security, we’ve learned what the major threats are, and the potential effects they can have. To get our organizations to a better place, we need to look at one ...

Now that we’ve put together all of the steps and processes as a baseline to address bringing RFID into an organization, we need to discuss the six steps to a reasonably secure implementation, and what ...

A researcher is working on technology he hopes will be able to control RFID tags and protect private information. “We are building our own RFID cards and adding features to them to make it visible and ...