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 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 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 Karsten Nohl, the researcher and hacker who almost two years ago declared that Mifare was insecure, will be speaking at the January RFID Security Alliance meeting and recently made two presentations at the 26th Chaos Communication Congress (CCC) conference – http://events.ccc.de/congress/2009/Fahrplan/speakers/1317.en.html .  These CCC presentations have received some widespread press.  [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Bert Moore, Editor of AIM Global’s RFID Connections newsletter, asked in today’s issue “Will this be the year that RFID security is finally implemented?” With the long lead time to get to a full project implementation, we think that Bert’s thesis is correct – although the timeframes may still continue [...]

Louis M. Parks, CEO of SecureRF Corporation, contributed a posting to The Connecticut Innovation Blog which appears today. Louis talks about the convergence of three trends: Aging security and cryptographic technologies The movement toward smaller computer platforms which may not be able to run these technologies The increase in computing power to attack and hack these systems [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The latest issue of Embedded Computing Devices (September 2009) has an article called Current trends in cyber attacks on mobile and embedded systems. “Now, with the advent of what some technologists call the “Internet of things,” we are encountering a new wave of hacking, one that encompasses not only wired [...]