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Contactless Payments Privacy and Security of RFID-Enabled Credit Cards

RFID technology brings a new experience to credit card payments, but it also comes with new problems. The new contactless payment devices suffer from various vulnerabilities which the paper will discuss. To circumvent these vulnerabilities the paper proposes some solutions which will provide higher privacy and security levels. Finally the...

Tags: Contactless Payment, Credit Card, Privacy, RFID, Technische Universiteit Eindhoven, Security

White papers 2008-06-16

Attacks on NFC mobile phones demonstrated

Yesterday, Collin Mulliner of the trifinite.group, a group of computer experts researching insecurities in wireless communications, has released the slides as well as the research tools he came up with in order to demonstrate various attacks and vulnerabilities in Near Field Communication mobile phones, a technology that will change the...

Tags: Phone, Contactless Payment, Mobile, Malware, Cell Phone, Attack, Advertising & Promotion, Cellular Phones, Security, Marketing, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-05-28

Discover tests mobile payments

Diane Offereins, CIO at Discover Financial Services talks about how the company is experimenting with new contactless payment technologies for example using a customer's cell phone to make credit card transactions. by Administrator

Tags: Payment, Contactless Payment, Mobile, Operational Accounting, Finance, Administrator

Blog posts 2008-02-05

Short clip: Discover tests mobile payments

Diane Offereins, CIO at Discover Financial Services talks about how the company is experimenting with new contactless payment technologies for example using a customer's cell phone to make credit card transactions.

Tags: Payment, Contactless Payment, Mobile, Diane Offereins, Operational Accounting, Finance

Videos 2008-02-05

Improving Consumers' Contactless Payment Experience

Contactless cards are a key technology for improving the consumer experience for retail transactions. Both computational speed and RF sensitivity are factored into the consumer's perceived transaction time. So a balance between speed and energy efficiency (a.k.a. sensitivity) is required in the chip design. The sensitivity of the contactless card...

Tags: Card, Contactless Payment, Sensitivity

White papers 2007-07-01

The What, Who and Why of Contactless Payments

The mass market introduction of contactless technology is an important event for the payments industry. Contactless payments are already providing benefits to consumers and retailers alike, in terms of higher levels of control and convenience for consumers and higher throughput for retailers. And these benefits are just the tip of...

Tags: Contactless Payment, Retail Company, Smart Card Alliance, Retail

White papers 2005-10-18

Additional Resources

Vulnerabilities in First-Generation RFID-Enabled Credit Cards

An increasing number of credit cards now contain a tiny wireless computer chip and antenna based on RFID radio frequency identification and contactless smart card technology. The RFID-enabled credit cards permit contactless payments that are fast, easy, and often more reliable than magnetic stripe card transactions, and only physical proximity...

Tags: Credit Card, Vulnerability, RFID, Sales Channel, Financial Services, Wireless And Mobility, Security, Biometrics, Sales

White papers 2009-02-02

Visa to develop apps on Android, Nokia phones

Visa said Thursday that it will develop applications for Android and Nokia phones with mobile payment systems planned for the latter. First up, the company said Chase Visa cardholders could get notifications about transaction activity on Android phones statement. Visa added that location-based services, maps and merchant...

Tags: Visa Inc., Payment, Phone, Nokia Corp., Android, Operational Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-25

CIO Sessions: San Francisco Giants CIO Bill Schlough

In this CIO Sessions interview, SF Giants CIO Bill Schlough outlines his multiple roles, managing back-end operations for the business of Giants baseball and AT&T Park and applying technology to improve profits and player performance and development with sophisticated digital video systems. He also talks about the free wireless access...

Tags: Entertainment, CIO Sessions, General, Mobile, Web Technology, Wired & Wireless

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Short Clip: SF Giant’s deliver new hi-tech payment system

CIO Bill Schlough explains how SF Giants customers will be able to use new “contactless�? credit card readers for the 2007 All-Star Game. by ZDNet Editor

Tags: Payment, Credit Card, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, ZDNet Editor

Blog posts 2007-05-15

Short clip: SF Giants deliver new hi-tech payment system

CIO Bill Schlough explains how SF Giants customers will be able to use new 'contactless'? credit card readers for the 2007 All-Star Game.

Tags: Payment, Credit Card, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Sales, Finance, Bill Schlough

Videos 2007-05-15

CES Big Picture #3: Oh ye cable, R.I.P. Wireless cometh and take ye away

Its now going on two weeks since CES has ended and so far, Ive posted two big picture pieces; one on when size stopped mattering and the other on how Hi-Definitions virtuous circle is finally complete. Last week, I was at Mashup Camp 3 at MIT so I held off...

Tags: General, Entertainment, Mobile, Personal Technology, Wired &, Wireless, Telephony, Events, CES 2007, Cool Tech Gear, Disruptive Technology, Wireless Report Card, VoIP Hardware@CES, credit card, wireless, Consumer Electronics Show

Blog posts 2007-01-23

Contactless Commerce Enables a World Beyond Payment Cards

More than 10 million new payment cards issued in the U.S. in 2005 support contactless transactions, and the number of cards keeps growing. As contactless commerce gains acceptance, card issuers seek to extend the technology to alternate form factors such as key fobs, which offer greater convenience to consumers and...

Tags: Payment, Operational Accounting, Finance

White papers 2006-12-01

RFID: Legitimate fear or fear-mongering?

Say what you want about the future, but it is certain it will arrive faster than we expect and usually without a great deal of debate. Radio-frequency identification, or RFID, is finding its way into many credit cards and, soon, other artifacts we carry on our persons....

Tags: RFID

Blog posts 2006-04-09

RFID interoperability still problematic

RFID interoperability still problematicAwwwwww shucksy pooWhat a shame. Can't we get Big brother here already?! What's the hold up, you greedy control freak sorry bastards?!Police RadioI watched a 60 minutes episode that showed problems with Police Radio systems and Nextel cell phones. Seems that Nextel had frequencies in or close...

Tags: Dollar Bill, Police Radio, RFID, false prophet, prophet, Bible

Discussion threads 2005-03-02

RFID Tags and Contactless Smart Card Technology: Comparing and Contrasting Applications and Capabilities

Many applications are now using radio frequency RF chip technology to automatically identify objects or people. These applications range from tracking animals and tagging goods for inventory control to enabling fast payment and securely identifying people. While these applications all use radio waves to communicate information, the RF chip technology...

Tags: Smart Card, Radio Frequency, Radio, RFID Tag, Smart Card Alliance, Smart Cards, Authentication/Encryption, Digital Security, Advertising & Promotion, RFID, Security, Marketing, Wireless, Biometrics

White papers 2004-12-23