Security researcher [Fran Brown] sent us this tip about his Tastic RFID Thief, which can stealthily snag the information off an RFID card at long range. If you’ve worked with passive RFID before, you ...

This article is the third in a series of considerations regarding embedded RFID readers for engineers, solution architects and product managers. In recent years, multinational corporations such as ...

It is hard to label any component of an RFID system as being more critical than any of the others. In past articles we have discussed the RFID tag, as well as, the RFID antenna hardware. Both of these ...

The credit card companies are taking the “necessary steps” so consumers can use the cards in a secure way, said ITRC executive director Jay Foley. “There is no real pickpocketing capability there. You ...

Targeting the rapidly emerging market for embedded RFID readers, two companies are introducing low-cost multiprotocol RFID readers for installation in printers and other equipment. RFID reader ...

[Carl] has done a lot of work developing a collection of RFID hardware. The two cards you see above are spoofers that can be programmed in the field using the keypad on the left, or the rather ...

More and more, companies that formally used only keys are now asking about keyless or electronic access control (EAC). Whether called badges, tokens or cards, they limit access to a facility to only ...

Engineers at NEC have developed an RFID card reader that’s compatible with all three major wireless formats. The reader will be launched around April next year, and a prototype was unveiled today at a ...