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Not sure what RFID is? Can't hack? You can STILL be a card ...

Not sure what RFID is? Can't hack? You can STILL be a card fraudster with this Android app

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3 Dec 2014 at 15:03, John Leyden

Cybercrooks have developed an Android app that makes it possible to hack RFID payment cards, researchers discovered after a Chilean transport system was defrauded.

The app at the centre of the scam hacked into the user's radio...

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IBM opens RFID test centre • The Register

IBM has opened up the doors on a new European test and interoperability laboratory for piloting and proving radio frequency identification technologies. The adoption of RFID will not only help retailers and consumer goods manufacturers better manage their stocks, it will also offer a potential windfall for the likes of IBM Global Services, Accenture and Computer Sciences.

The new centre, which is...

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Feds approve human RFID implants • The Register

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a gimmick from Florida-based Applied Digital Solutions to chip people with RFID implants - previously confined to tracking animals - thereby making it easy to access their medical records, even when they cannot, or would rather not, cooperate.

The tiny, passive RFID devices, called VeriChips , are injected under the hide. They do not contain...

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Related topics : implant rfid chip technology / rfid chip implant / rf chip reader / rfid implants in humans / rfid tags human implants

Feds approve human RFID implants • The Register

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a gimmick from Florida-based Applied Digital Solutions to chip people with RFID implants - previously confined to tracking animals - thereby making it easy to access their medical records, even when they cannot, or would rather not, cooperate.

The tiny, passive RFID devices, called VeriChips , are injected under the hide. They do not contain...

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Related topics : implant rfid chip technology / rfid chip implant / rf chip reader / rfid implants in humans / rfid tags human implants

‘Anonymous’ takes down Texan RFID-tracking school • The ...

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Activist group Anonymous, or persons using its insignia and name, claim to have taken down the website of the US schools that have made it compulsory for students to wear RFID tags.

Andrea Hernandez, a sophomore student at the John Jay High School's Science and Engineering Academy in San Antonio, last week refused to wear the tags, arguing her rights to privacy and freedom of expression, along with her religious beliefs, meant she did not want to wear...

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