RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I received a notice from the event production firm, Worldwide Business Research (WBR), about their upcoming pharmaceutical events: SecurePharma, scheduled for 2/23-25/2009 and LogiPharma, scheduled for 9/21-23/2009. Both of these are “executive level” events being held at hotels in Philadelphia. Their notice reads: The pharmaceutical industry is being hit hard [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Last spring an information security researcher and team at the Radboud University in Nijmegen built on the work of Karten Nohl and Henryk Plötz to demonstrate and confirm a hack against NXP’s Mifare Classic. On March 10, 2008, just days after the Dutch government, NPX and Parliament were notified of [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I have written several entries about food and drug safety, RFID tracking and the FDA including: Food Production and Safety Safeguarding America’s Pharmaceuticals FDA Tracking Requirements: Drugs, Medical Devices, Why Not Food Too? RFID and ePedigree Won’t Help these Twists in the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain After reading The Safety Gap by [...]