RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Tomorrow, May 12, is the next RFID Security Alliance Meeting (via phone or in-person).  SecureRF CEO, Louis Parks, will be talking about his RFID security talk at last month’s INTERPHEX Pharmaceutical conference.  Other RFIDSA members are speaking about the conferences they have recently participated in.  See Insights into the Spring Conference Season for [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The New York Times recently had an Op-Ed piece titled “Are You Buying Illegal Drugs?” The contributors are Katherine Eban, the author of “Dangerous Doses: A True Story of Cops, Counterfeiters and the Contamination of America’s Drug Supply” and J. Aaron Graham, a former agent for the Food and Drug [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher On March 20th, The New York Times covered a story of how a graduate engineering student in China, Wang Jianwei, had been described as a potential cyberwarrior before the United States Congress. “Mr. Wang said he and his professor had indeed published “Cascade-Based Attack Vulnerability on the U.S. Power Grid” in [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The RFID Security Alliance has changed the format of their monthly meetings and will now start with an open discussion of a topic of interest. The meetings can be joined in person in California or via conference call. This month Alliance member and security expert Lukas Grunwald will do a [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I just received an email from ABI Research announcing their Annual RFID End User Survey top line results. Good news: “Nearly half (49%) of those respondents currently using, deploying, evaluating, or piloting RFID report that they expect their RFID budgets to increase in 2010.” Missing: The issue of RFID security. [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Engineering researchers at The University of Arkansas recently announced that they “have developed a unique and robust method to prevent cloning of passive radio frequency identification tags. The technology, based on one or more unique physical attributes of individual tags rather than information stored on them, will prevent the production [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I’ve heard of scientists using RFID tags on butterflies to track their migration. Now the patterns on a butterfly’s wing may be able to help make RFID tags more secure and prevent counterfeiting. Scientists from QinetiQ, an international defense and security technology company based in the UK, and the University [...]