RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne Kelleher On February 28, 2008, the New York Times published an article called “Twists in Chain of Supplies for Blood Drug” which describes how U.S. regulators are investigating why over 400 patients in the United States have suffered serious complications after receiving the blood-thinner drug heparin. This article points to the issues [...]

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 The Washington State House of Representatives passed a bill on February 12, 2008 that would make it a felony to steal information from RFID cards. Bill HB 1031 – Changing provisions concerning electronic devices – would make it a class C felony to intentionally skim information from RFID-enabled identity cards for [...]

Contributed by Joanne Kelleher California Senate Bill 31, which misdemeanors for non-consensual remote reading RFID and for improper disclosure of the keys to RFID systems, is part of a package of bills concerning privacy and RFID technology introduced by CA Senator Simitian. After several amendments, SB 31 was passed by the California Senate on 1/30/08 [...]