RFID Security

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher For the third year in a row, Louis Parks, SecureRF’s CEO, is speaking at INTERPHEX on the topic of RFID security and privacy. INTERPHEX is a life sciences event for the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries.  This year he is leading a panel discussion with other members of the RFID Security [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher The February issue of RFID Monthly, published by Reik Read of Robert W. Baird & Co., has an article called Privacy Stakes Raised, which first discusses Chris Paget’s recent efforts to collect the serial numbers from passport cards and electronic driver’s licenses in downtown San Francisco.  For details on this [...]

 Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Last week, in Got $250? Cloning Electronic Passport Cards I discussed the presentation that security researcher Chris Paget planned to give at the Shmoocon hacker convention.  The description of his talk says “$250 on eBay buys the necessary kit to clone the Electronic Drivers License and US Passport Card…” These [...]

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher Security researcher Chris Paget has developed a way to secretly sniff and clone electronic passport cards from 30 feet away with a used RFID reader from eBay. His efforts build off the work of researchers at the University of Washington and RSA, which last year found weaknesses in US passport [...]