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 A few weeks ago I posted a blog entry titled “Lack Of Security In Smart-Meter Rollouts.”  This topic continues to get an increasing amount of press, including these two articles: “Smart” Power Grids a Prime Target in Cyber Warfare in Security Week. http://www.securityweek.com/smart-power-grids-prime-target-cyber-warfare Energy Insecurities: The Downside of Being Too [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher PharmaTech, a publication for pharmaceutical manufacturers, reports that the Council of the EU and the European Parliament are amending the current anti-counterfeiting directive to include a requirement for features that enable the identification, authentication and traceability of prescription medicines. “The only way a specific product can be identified, authenticated and [...]

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 CBS News recently did a story on the data security holes related to digital copiers and multi function printers (MFPs).  A CBS reporter purchased some used machines and worked with security firm to pull out the hard drives and read the data that was stored there. They found medical information from an [...]

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 [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The 12/1/09 electronic version of Contactless News has an interesting article that overlaps my previous role in Human Resources with my current technology focus:  Privacy analysis necessary for access control systems  The article suggests that corporations need to keep abreast of any state legislation that may impact the use of [...]