A U.K. firm has developed an on/off “switch” for RFID cards that could protect cardholders from being hacked. The cardholder activates the RFID transmission by squeezing the card between his thumb and ...

While the manufacturer is working to move customers to new technology, there are over 3 billion Mifare DESfire cards in circulation. And some of them may still be in use at government agencies for ...

The Dutch government has issued a warning about the security of access keys that are based on the widely used Mifare Classic RFID chip. Government institutions plan to take “additional security ...

A new type of radio frequency identification (RFID) chip developed by a team of researchers from Texas Instruments and MIT is believed to be impossible to hack. Should the technology prove scalable, ...

It's been a rough year for cards. There was a great deal of publicity about hacks on RFID cards (like this story about Chris Paget remotely sniffing data in U.S. passport cards), and now San Francisco ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Tesla’s Model 3 doesn’t come with a physical key. Instead, it can be unlocked and turned on with a smartphone, a ...

RFID payment systems are one of those things that the community seems to be divided on. Some only see the technology as a potential security liability, and will go a far as to disable the RFID chip in ...