RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher GE’s Ecomagination Challenge is a $200 million call to action for businesses, entrepreneurs, innovators, and students to share their best ideas and come together to take on one of the world’s toughest challenges – building the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21st century. SecureRF has submitted [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher A few weeks ago I posted a blog entry titled “Lack Of Security In Smart-Meter Rollouts.”  This topic continues to get an increasing amount of press, including these two articles: “Smart” Power Grids a Prime Target in Cyber Warfare in Security Week. http://www.securityweek.com/smart-power-grids-prime-target-cyber-warfare Energy Insecurities: The Downside of Being Too [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher PharmaTech, a publication for pharmaceutical manufacturers, reports that the Council of the EU and the European Parliament are amending the current anti-counterfeiting directive to include a requirement for features that enable the identification, authentication and traceability of prescription medicines. “The only way a specific product can be identified, authenticated and [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Smart Grid security covers a wide spectrum of technologies from fences and video cameras at the power generation facilities and substations to securing the data in the embedded systems and metering devices used to monitor and adjust a homeowner’s usage. These Smart Meter security issues have been in the news a lot recently. Elinor [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher SecureRF Corporation has received its first patent! The United States Patent and Trademark Office has granted SecureRF U.S. Patent 7,649,999 for the world’s first cryptography method to run in linear time. The patented algorithm provides a key agreement protocol and a method for generating a secret key to facilitate secure [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher What is the difference between private key and public key cryptography? What is the difference between symmetric and asymmetric cryptography? What is the difference between Diffie-Hellman (Elliptic Curve) and RSA asymmetric cryptography methods? Since SecureRF’s Algebraic Eraser™ technology offers a combination of symmetric (i.e. private key or secret key) and [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher CBS News recently did a story on the data security holes related to digital copiers and multi function printers (MFPs).  A CBS reporter purchased some used machines and worked with security firm to pull out the hard drives and read the data that was stored there. They found medical information from an [...]