RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne Kelleher This week Bill Gertz at the Washington Times wrote an exclusive series about the Government Printing Office (GPO) and the production of e-Passports. These RFID enabled passports have a computer chip and antenna embedded in the cover so that data can be read from a distance. Here are the highlights of [...]

Contributed by Joanne Kelleher The California State Board of Pharmacy voted on 3/25/08 to delay for two years the requirement that all prescription drugs be electronically tracked. This is the second delay, which is now pushed back to 1/1/2011. “The vote was a response to complaints from drug manufacturers, distributors and retail pharmacists that they [...]

Contributed by Joanne Kelleher FDA Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), Section 505D(b)(3) states that the standards developed for “identification, validation, authentication, and tracking and tracing of prescription drugs” ‘‘shall address promising technologies, which may include—(A) radio-frequency identification; (B) nanotechnology; (C)encryption technologies; and (D) other track and trace or authentication technologies.’’  See http://www.securerf.com/RFID-Security-blog/?p=30. As instructed by [...]

Contributed by Joanne Kelleher Another week and another blog entry about hacking RFID – this time it is contactless credit cards. Unlike the Mifare story which has received lots of international attention (see http://www.securerf.com/RFID-Security-blog/?p=46), so far this story had only been picked up by a few technology blogs. Maybe it is old news just presented [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher When news initially hit that the Mifare Classic card was hacked by a University of Virginia graduate student Karsten Nohland and two German partners I wasn’t going to blog about it. I’ve covered several other RFID -related technologies which have been hacked. What usually happens is the community and/or the [...]