RFID Security

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 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 [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Per the New York Times, more than $3.5 billion of integrated circuits are bought annually for use in U.S. military gear. Only about 2 percent of these are manufactured in secure facilities run by American companies and the United States lacks the ability to fulfill the capacity requirements needed to [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher A co-worker sent me an article called Buggy ‘smart meters’ open door to power-grid botnet: Grid-burrowing worm only the beginning (Thanks, Henry). “For an embedded platform, they’re kind of scary,” said Mike Davis, a senior security consultant for IOActive about the buggy software running on meters for the Smart Grid.  [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Louis Parks, President and CEO of SecureRF, spoke last month with eg3.com about security in the growing world of M2M (machine-to-machine) applications, especially in RFID, the RFID Security Alliance and SecureRF’s new SecureM2M SDK (software development kit) for developers. Anyone interested in embedded wireless, RFID, M2M, and of course security [...]