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- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment push
- Mobile industry calls for RFID payment pushyet another way to hack into your wallet!Invisibly with no pain at all, your bank account can now be drained even more efficiently, and the phone and credit card companies will only charge you yet another fee for the "convenience". To them, that is...
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
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- Coca-Cola Teaches The World To....
- "Participating in the community of the consumer." I love that phrase. That's the way Jim Keyes, Blockbuster CEO described their Facebook group - which is for the most part, despite all our conversations to the contrary, is what most people think of when you say "community" or "social network"...
- Blog posts 2009-07-15
- An Efficient Distance Bounding RFID Authentication Protocol: Balancing False-Acceptance Rate and Memory Requirement
- The Mafia fraud consists in an adversary transparently relaying the physical layer signal during an authentication process between a verifier and a remote legitimate prover. This attack is a major concern for certain RFID systems, especially for payment related applications. Previously proposed protocols that thwart the Mafia fraud treat relaying...
- White papers 2009-07-04
- PSP: Private and Secure Payment With RFID
- RFID can be used for a variety of applications, e.g., to conveniently pay for public transportation. However, achieving security and privacy of payment is challenging due to the extreme resource restrictions of RFID tags. This paper proposes PSP - a secure, RFID-based protocol for privacy-preserving payment. Similar to traditional electronic...
- White papers 2009-04-24
- 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...
- White papers 2009-02-02
- News to know: Microsoft; Psystar; Mozilla; Storm; Office 2.0
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Microsoft kills OneCare, replaces it with freebie ‘Morro’ Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft kills off Windows Live OneCare and Equipt subscription services Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Microsoft...
- Blog posts 2008-11-19
- 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...
- 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...
- Blog posts 2008-05-28
- Every move you make tracked by RFID tags
- We've been told for several years that RFID tags would appear everywhere. This is not the case yet, but researchers at the University of Washington would like to know if the future of social networking could be affected by these tags and check the balance between privacy and utility. They've...
- Blog posts 2008-04-05
- CIO Agenda: Driving the Enterprise 2.0 - Transcript
- Dave Margulius: When you think about your customers both internal and external, how fast are their demands changing? You know, if I'd asked you it last year, "What do they want?" Is it significantly different from now and what's the impact on IT? And then kind of corollary to...
- Blog posts 2007-09-06
- Microsoft: Steve Ballmer sells to retail in NYC
- Steve Ballmer is Microsoft’s top salesperson. This morning, in New York City, he sold Microsoft Retail Solutions to the retail industry, big time.Ballmer, Microsoft Corp. CEO, addressed the National Retail Federation NRF Annual Convention, delivering the keynote of “Retail’s Big Show 2007” to an audience offering “the highest concentration of...
- Blog posts 2007-01-15
- RF-Enabled Applications and Technology: Comparing and Contrasting RFID and RF-Enabled Smart Cards
- Many applications are now using Radio Frequency RF technology to automatically identify objects or verify the identity of people. These RF-enabled applications range from tracking animals and tagging goods for inventory control to enabling secure payment and identification. While these applications all use radio waves to communicate information, the RF...
- White papers 2007-01-01
- Symbol CEO: Great work if you can get it
- Footnoted.org has a fine post on the perks of being CEO of RFID/barcode company Symbol Technologies when Motorola comes calling. From Footnoted: "It never ceases to amaze me how creative companies get when it comes to naming different bonuses. It almost makes you...
- Blog posts 2006-11-14
- RFID tags spy on bartenders
- RFID tags spy on bartendersExcellent use of Tech.Many years ago I was in a limited partnership owning a nightclub. (Couldn't sell it fast enough to suit me.) The BIGGEST loss was via the bartenders pouring WAY too much, giving away drinks, and plain pocketing the money on the...
- Discussion threads 2006-06-25
- RFID: Legitimate fear or fear-mongering?
- RFID: Legitimate fear or fear-mongering?I agree, mostlyI agree with the viewpoint expressed in your final paragraph. The following is a bit misleading though:[i]"Walker's worry that his location could be tracked or that someone with a reciever ....payment information is not realistic, because the field of the receiver defines the...
- Discussion threads 2006-04-10
- 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....
- Blog posts 2006-04-09
- An RFID solution to rush hour headaches?
- An RFID solution to rush hour headaches?Problem bringing this to the StatesThe biggest problem here would be that there HAS to be an alternative. In Atlanta, the mass transit system is only viable if you live and work at one of the stations. Most people have to drive...
- Discussion threads 2006-03-06
- RFID subway pass? Sure, New York says
- RFID subway pass? Sure, New York saysBut, RFID payment tags should only be activated on demand.The problem that I have with much of the latest ideas for using RFIC technology for payment and identification, is that they are always active. Readable by anyone with a reader and a bit of...
- Discussion threads 2006-01-31
- How RFID Improves The Order-To-Cash Process
- Without focusing RFID efforts on specific business processes, RFID adopters will fail to capture benefits and determine a manageable deployment road map. Forrester broke down a common process, order-to-cash, to uncover when RFID data significantly improves the process — and when existing technologies do an adequate job. The clearest beneficiaries?...
- Research reports 2005-05-27
- 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...
- Discussion threads 2005-03-02
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