RFID Security

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 I received an email the other day from a Russian firm “engaged in gathering of the used tickets of Moscow underground (based on Mifare Ultralight), processing and their secondary application.”  As I read their unusual message a few things struck me. 1. Is there really enough of a market for [...]

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 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 I recently finished reading Wired for War: The Robotics Revolution and Conflict in the 21st Century by P.W. Singer (2009).   The book covered the historical impact of major technological changes on warfare methods and strategies, the development of robots, the ethics of using robots in a conflict situation and the [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher  It’s official.  SecureRF has been awarded a Phase II SBIR grant from the National Science Foundation to continue our work developing a secure, passive RFID tag that meets EPCglobal protocols.  The development of a secure passive RFID tag will provide the pharmaceutical industry, which handles nearly four billion prescriptions in [...]