RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The commute to my (not at home) office is long enough that listening to the radio gets old so I have been raiding the “book on cd” shelf at the local library. As you can imagine, the number of audio books is much smaller then the old fashioned kind but [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The Wall Street Journal posted an article called Border-Crossing Cards Can Be Copied.  It is based on a paper (EPC RFID Tags in Security Applications: Passport Cards, Enhanced Drivers Licenses, and Beyond) and set of FAQ that have been posted on the website of RSA Laboratories, a division of EMC [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher One of the policies that the European Commission’s Information Society follows is Radio Frequency Identification. They are preparing a Communication on the Internet of Things (IoT), planned for the second quarter of 2009. “This Communication on the Internet of Things will propose a policy approach addressing the whole range of [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher This week The Georgia Tech Information Security Center (GTISC) hosted its annual summit on emerging security threats and countermeasures affecting the digital world. For the second year in a row they have issued a report of those security threats expected to increase and evolve. Last year’s threats were: Web 2.0 and [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The issue of food production and safety is continuing to get a lot of press. The New York Times Sunday Magazine for 10/12/2008 is the Food Issue. http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html I recommend you check out the lead story, Farmer in Chief, which provides recommendations on what the next president can and should do [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher This week THC (The Hackers Choice) released a video and a tool to backup data from the ePassport. The tool also allows you to create a clone of the ePassport chip. http://freeworld.thc.org/thc-epassport/ In tests for The Times (UK), Jeroen van Beek, a security researcher at the University of Amsterdam who [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher After 22 months of effort, California’s governor, Arnold Schwarzenegger, signed SB 31 into law on Tuesday. This bill was originally part of a larger effort to limit RFID by CA Senator Simitian. “This bill would provide that a person or entity that intentionally remotely reads or attempts to remotely read [...]