RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I recently renewed my U.S. Passport and the new one arrived yesterday. Included in the package was a brochure from the State Department titled “With Your U.S. Passport, the World is Yours!” which covers a variety of travel issues. One of the sections in the brochure covers the features and [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Alcatel-Lucent Ventures, which commercializes research developed in Bell Labs, is launching tikitag. This service, soon to be in beta, will use near field communication (NFC) technology to connect physical objects with online information and applications. Starter kits containing an NFC reader, 10 tikitags and software will be available on e-commerce [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher One of the very first entries in this blog was “It’s Just a Number,” contributed by Louis Parks about the EPCglobal US Conference 2006. “I was not surprised to be issued a conference badge – complete with embedded RFID tag. I was VERY surprised to be given a one page [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I just spent a few days at the RFID World conference in Las Vegas which confirmed a few things for me: I am not a fan of gambling – see post # 69.  Maybe it is the ding, ding, ding, ding, ring-a-ling sound of the slot machines, even here in [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher SecureRF is proud to be a founding member of the RFID Security Alliance (RFIDSA), whose formation was announced today as a new resource for the radio frequency identification (RFID) industry, driving market education and discussion about security and privacy issues surrounding the use of RFID technologies, solutions and applications. RFIDSA [...]