RFID Security

Contributed at Joanne C. Kelleher Chris Corum, executive editor at SecureID News wrote an interesting article about enforcing license agreements for crypto in the Smart Card industry (Monday, May 4, 2009).  Smart card vulnerability, license fees and patent law, discusses how Cryptography Research won a legal settlement against Visa and is now collecting licensing fees. [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher SecureRF Corporation has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant by the United States Air Force (USAF) for a secure, satellite-enabled, radio frequency identification (RFID) system. The secure global RFID system is intended to verify the actual location, and precisely track in-transit assets without providing targeting [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher My household is starting to think about back to school, so here is a quiz for you: Students/researchers at ______(a)_______ hacked the ______(b)____ transportation card. These researchers planned to share results at _______(c)_________. The _____(d)______ Transportation Authority filed an injunction to prevent presentation, claiming that disclosing the details would inflict [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher A new paper from researchers at the University of California, Berkeley says that consumers have misunderstandings about how RFID works and the security issues related to the technology. The report, Where’s The Beep?: Security, Privacy, and User Misunderstandings of RFID, issued by researchers Jennifer King and Andrew McDiarmid, focused on [...]

Contributed by Joanne Kelleher Another week and another blog entry about hacking RFID – this time it is contactless credit cards. Unlike the Mifare story which has received lots of international attention (see http://www.securerf.com/RFID-Security-blog/?p=46), so far this story had only been picked up by a few technology blogs. Maybe it is old news just presented [...]

Contributed by Joanne Kelleher At this year’s Black Hat security conference there was another hack on RFID from security researcher Adam Laurie. He was able to pull up the American Express credit card account data, including name, account number and expiration date, from the wallet of a volunteer and display it on the big screen [...]

Contributed by Joanne Kelleher In response to the negative press about the U.S. Passport Cards there has been some feedback from those people involved with the program. It seems highly unusual for current and prior Government officials to write an opinion piece or a letter to the editor. Kathy Kraninger, Director of the Screening and [...]