A billion RF smart cards open to hacking

Charlie Walton, the man responsible for the popularisation of Radio Frequency Identification - RFID - technology, has been confirmed as having died earlier this month aged 89. Although the technology had existed prior to...

Both the iPad 2 and the iPhone 5 are likely to be equipped with near field communication (NFC) chips which brings seamless connectivity to mobile devices while being frugal on power consumption. iLounge cites an anonymous source...

Apple may be looking to build a RFID reader in the screen of your next iPhone 5 smartphone in a bid to capture a large chunk of the growing contactless technology industry. Patently Apple unearthed a patent that specifically...

Computer chips that identify themselves over the airwaves must only be kept live in consumer products if the shopper specifically asks for them not to be deactivated, the European Commission has said.The Commission said that...

The GSM association which represents the mobile industry, is pushing hard to get Near Field Communication (NFC) features added to mobile phones as early as mid-2009, including the Single Wire Protocol NFC interface. At an event,...

My thanks to the BitTech newswire for publicising an interesting YouTube posting from this summer's 2600/HOPE hacker conference in which Adam Savage of Mythbusters fame revealed what a set of bully boys the credit and debit card...

O2 has recently wrapped up the six months long trial of its ambitious Near Field Communication (NFC) in Europe and claimed that the technology is still has a long way to go for the real-time deployment.NFC entails using a single...

In September, Heathrow Airport will become the largest in Europe to trial RFID-based tags for tracking passenger luggage, comparing accuracy and read rates against their existing barcode-based systems. Radio Frequency...

Research and Markets has announced the addition of RFID for Healthcare and Pharmaceuticals 2007-2017 to their offering.The RFID business is growing so fast that few applicational sectors can beat that scorching rate of growth....

The European Commission will make changes to the Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive to take account of the exploding market in radio frequency identification (RFID) chips, it has said. Amendments will be proposed by...

Following on my report about the Visa Wave RFID card project, it seems that plans are now well under way to launch versions of the MasterCard PayPass and Visa Wave cards in the UK.My sources tells me that Barclaycard and the...

Sad news folks - I have to report that M&S has completed its early trials of RFID technology on men's suits and is so pleased with the stock control etc., results, that it's extending the tagging system to all of its clothing...

Regular readers of this column will recall my occasional wibbles about the insecurity of RFID-enabled credit card technology such as MasterCard PayPass.To recap, PayPass is an RFID (radio frequency ID) plastic card that operates...

According to this month’s Black Hat security conference, passports equipped with RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) tags can be cloned.German researchers demonstrated that any laptop equipped with a $200 RFID reader and an...

Shops which use RFID tags and CCTV cameras must tell shoppers every time an RFID tag is used and must tell shoppers how to remove them. The order comes in guidelines produced by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).RFID...