Providers Proactive About Security in 2008

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher RFID Update has been running a series of articles called “9 Things RFID Will Be Remembered for in ‘08 ... topic – RFID Security. It was nice to see recognition for the work that AIM Global, the RFID Security Alliance, SecureRF, and others are doing to be more positive about addressing RFID security [more...]

Date: 2008-12-18 21:23:39

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Big Three Failure Would Impact Defense Supply Chains

A failure by one or more of the Detroit Three automakers and their suppliers could put national security as well as the economy at risk, ... Monday at the Michigan Defense and Innovation Symposium at Schoolcraft College in Livonia, MI ... Guidelines for Ensuring RFID Security — medical | organizations | retail | RFID | security | technology [more...]

Date: 2008-11-17 21:40:31

RFID Passports: Are They Secure?

Need even more proof that RFID doesn’t improve security? According to a group of hackers who bypassed an ePassport RFID authentication at an Amsterdam airport, RFID passports aren’t as secure as people think. Using software to design custom identities [more...]

Date: 2008-10-03 02:35:48

RFID Security and Privacy Cybertrust Grant

UVa Today has an article about our (myself, abhi shelat, John Lach, and Ben Calhoun) recent NSF Cybertrust grant on RFID security and privacy: U.Va ... available on common RFID tags. Providing a solution that adds virtually no cost is crucial, because ... . Team Receives $1 Million Grant To Improve RFID Security, by Brevy Cannon, 9 January 2009 [more...]

Date: 2009-01-13 04:27:08

SecureRF receives SBIR grant to develop a secure, satellite-enabled, RFID system

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher SecureRF Corporation has been awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) ... identification (RFID) system. The secure global RFID system is intended to verify the actual location ... protocol within an active RFID tag with GPS functions. For more information, see the press release [more...]

Date: 2008-12-05 22:08:19

Roland’s Sunday Smart Trends #246

RFID’s Security Problem Are U.S. passport cards and new state driver’s licenses with RFID truly secure? ... goes mobile Going online from a personal computer to access government services has been commonplace ... of those same services are available through your cellphone. In Singapore, text messages are used [more...]

Date: 2008-12-28 12:00:58

RFID Keeps Police Operations Safe And Secure

RFID Keeps Police Operations Safe And Secure In April of 2008 Prince William County in Virginia implemented the Compass system to provide increased ... Retail Pilot Quantifies RFID's Many Benefits more... ... Ordering With RFID ILR® Brings Visibility To Container Flow For Volkswagen Elby Gifts: The Gift of Giving [more...]

Date: 2008-11-14 16:18:26

new testking comptia training dumps

CompTIA Certifications A+ : A+ CDIA+ : Certified Document Imaging Architech CTT+ : Certified Technical Trainer E-biz+ : e-Business HTI+ : ... + : Project+ RFID+ : Radio Frequency Identification Security+ : Security+ Server+ : Server+ CompTIA ... , training, Linux, security, home technology, document imaging and RFID. TestKing offers learning [more...]

Date: 2008-10-30 08:29:59

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Mythbusters Gagged: Credit Card Companies Kill Episode Exposing RFID Security Flaws ~The Consumerist Credit card companies successfully nixed a Mythbusters segment exposing RFID’s security flaws, according to Arbiter of Truth and Mythbusters co-host, Adam Savage. Texas Instruments comes on along with chief legal counsel [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 14:19:59

CC Companies Scotch Mythbusters Show On RFID Security

mathfeel passes along a video in which Mythbusters co-host Adam Savage recounts how credit card companies lawyered up to make sure the Discovery ... channel never, ever airs a segment on the flaws in RFID security. "Texas Instruments comes on a scheduled conference call along with chief legal counsel for American Express, Visa, Discover [more...]

Date: 2008-08-30 22:40:00

The RFID-Enabled Airport

The RFID-Enabled Airport Hurricanes have destroyed several commercial sites along the Gulf Coast over the last few years and Charlotte County Florida Airport (PGD) in Punta Gorda is no different. PGD was... RFID-Enabled Parking Garage Access RFID Secures Middle East Border Protection Bob Jones University: Improved Security, Reduced Costs [more...]

Date: 2008-11-25 08:25:27

Practice Observed: Secure Improvisations

Improvisation enacted to overcome a secured door that is probably the most often used in the studio, ... ..) A stapler used to keep a door open helps one poor sould evades the secure RFID lock. Likely, their secure card was left on their desk or some such and the stapler provides them a momentary work-around [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 17:01:28

Practice Observed: Secure Improvisations

Improvisation enacted to overcome a secured door that is probably the most often used in the studio, ... ..) A stapler used to keep a door open helps one poor sould evades the secure RFID lock. Likely, their secure card was left on their desk or some such and the stapler provides them a momentary work-around [more...]

Date: 2008-12-11 17:01:28

SCIENCE NEWS PICKS

Here are some very interesting science news picks from one of my favorite science news sites—ScienceDaily—that I’ve recently read and want to share ... Of Going Green: Industrial Hygienists Suggest Watching Out For Mold When Going Green INVASIVE ... From Slow Water Currents RFID CHIPS: RFID Chips: A Privacy And Security Pandora’s Box? SEA LEVEL RISE [more...]

Date: 2008-11-26 14:04:04

RFID Technology

RFID technology is used all around us in many different business ... stems with detailed explanations. In addition, the course covers RFID middleware, standards, security & ... . RFID stands for Radio-frequency identification which is an automatic method that uses radio [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 20:18:00

Schools using RFID for security enhancement

Aeroscout Inc., a provider of asset visibility solutions, has announced the adoption of its visibilty solution by two educational institutions ... based Active RFID tags are affixed to the equipment. The tags communicate with the school’ ... some real world examples of how schools can use RFID technology to cope with various school security [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 19:15:00

Schools using RFID for security enhancement

Aeroscout Inc., a provider of asset visibility solutions, has announced the adoption of its visibilty solution by two educational institutions ... based Active RFID tags are affixed to the equipment. The tags communicate with the school’ ... some real world examples of how schools can use RFID technology to cope with various school security [more...]

Date: 2008-09-09 19:15:00

SkyeTek Offers Web-based RFID Software Platform

SkyeTek Offers Web-based RFID Software Platform The company's MetaFi suite of hosted applications allows manufacturers to track high-value products ... Sensors Zero In on Crime Thirty communities use the ShotSpotter system to identify and locate gunfire ... › ADT Expects RFID Will Reduce False Alarms for Home Security › RFID News [more...]

Date: 2008-08-22 23:11:10

News 2008.09.04 Late Edition

Peratech Creates QTC Switch Technology for Contactless RFID Security Contactless RFID is well established for access control for buildings; simply wave your pass near the reader and the door opens. This technology is now being rolled out in the UK and around the World for so called 'BioMetric passports' and credit cards because [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 23:33:33

Elvis Comes Back from Dead to Prove RFID Passports Lack Security

Hackers have discovered techniques to make backups of RFID passports as well as bypass ePassport RFID authentication at airport passport scanners. Their method, which is publicly available, includes software to design custom identities and convinces scanners to accept fully fabricated RFID chips—neither of which trigger any sort of alarm [more...]

Date: 2008-10-06 10:28:14

EPTS Event Processing Symposium, Live Blogging Day 2: Susan Urban

As I mentioned yesterday, today's focus of the EPTS meeting is technology. The morning keynote is Susan Urban,Texas Tech ... - Autonomic computing / Ambient Intelligence - RFID / Monitoring Applications - Personalization ... (air traffic, baggage, security), healthcare (epidemic, patient monitoring, RFID in-body monitoring [more...]

Date: 2008-09-18 13:35:01

Monopoly supplier rips off British public with 93-97% markup

The irrepressible BoingBoing blog has a story about the rank insecurity and grotesque 85% markup on US RFID passports: You know those new, super-secure, RFID-enabled passports the US is issuing to its citizens? They’re manufactured ... a tiny wire antenna when it is scanned electronically at border entry points and compared [more...]

Date: 2008-10-24 07:15:00

Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management

Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management Domino ISG provides real-time traffic control that eliminates the delays, errors, and omissions of manual tracking. Asset tracking systems automatically monitors movements at... Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards MIKOH Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-05 04:02:35

First week in the Philippines

We arrived exactly one week ago and now we are renting a condominium somewhere between Ortigas and Makati ... using RFID badges in elevators, security camera and 24 hour security guards. Also, no one can access our floor without proper badges. The apartment is fully furnished. Fortunately we only a few minor [more...]

Date: 2008-12-10 01:27:53

Motorola VC6096 WWAN In-Vehicle/Fixed Mount Mobile Computer

Motorola VC6096 WWAN In-Vehicle/Fixed Mount Mobile Computer Simultaneous support for GPS and telematics applications provides the information you ... ... Psion Teklogix 7530 G2 Handheld Computer Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center Management Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards MIKOH Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID Antennas [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 18:31:15

Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards

Intellitag 915 MHz Intelligent ID Cards First credit card format intelligent ID card providing both long-range identification and read/write ... Smart&Secure: Retail RFID Tag Venture Research: RFID Antennas Motorola VC6096 WWAN In-Vehicle/Fixed Mount Mobile Computer Psion Teklogix 7530 G2 Handheld Computer Domino RFID-Enabled Data Center [more...]

Date: 2008-11-07 19:19:51

Daily news beat for August 20, 2008

RFID's new utility in the datacenter. The No. 1 growth category for RFID tags is IT asset management ... information security. Related: Four exotic uses of RFID that just might surprise you. CRM host Salesforce.com scoops up InStranet, the maker of knowledge-based management products for call centers in a deal [more...]

Date: 2008-08-20 17:40:07

Shift in budgets by IT companies

New study from Forrester Research Inc. stated that It companies will spend more and increase their security budgets in 2009 as compare to 2008 ... Privacy Problems! Why don’t companies do resonable security? I wonder if you ever heard about RFID ... . The change will result from a shift in security strategy from computer security threat defense [more...]

Date: 2009-01-08 00:54:41

Insecure by design

Would you design a system which you know is vulnerable to hacking?  However, the fact is that secure systems do cost more than their non-secure ( ... an RFID-based cards used for prepaying highway tolls in the San Francisco Bay Area, and the barcode based system used by the National Library Board in Singapore. Both systems can be easily broken [more...]

Date: 2008-12-24 08:19:07

News 2008.07.21 Late Edition

iSuppli Webinar Reveals Truth About MEMS Just how fast is the MEMS industry really growing? ... Incorporated (TI) (NYSE:TXN) introduced a 13-W Power over Ethernet (PoE) powered device controller ... , including IP phones, IP security cameras, wireless access points, security card readers and RFID scanners [more...]

Date: 2008-07-21 23:24:53

New ‘On/Off Switch’ Secures RFID Cards

DarkReading’s Senior Editor - Kelly Jackson Higgins reports on a new advance in RFID deployments permitting the initialization of the so-called ... transmission by squeezing the card between his thumb and forefinger when it must be scanned by a reader.” ... built into a smart card during the lamination process. When compressed, it acts as an RFID signal [more...]

Date: 2008-09-12 00:21:32

IT Planet Security Cameras

If you are an entrepreneur opening up a retail store, bank, or just an office, ... has a variety of other products in the categories of label printing, ID card printing, point of sale, RFID, and security systems. Check out IT Planet today for all your security needs. Bookmark [more...]

Date: 2008-11-16 00:00:21

RFID-enabled Poker Table

Gambling has gotten all the more secure with a new RFID-enabled poker table, ... to that of televised games. Wireless RFID chips are located at the bottom of a table, while RFID tags are fitted on a few deck of car… toys mobile phone technology video games computers robot gizmo gadget [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 01:52:07

What probably happened with Mythbusters and RFID

People seem to be upset at the potential censorship Mythbusters’ Adam Savage described when he said industry lawyers prevented him from creating an episode about security problems with RFID.  Now new accounts are being released both by TI ... be hundreds of different types of system covered by the name “RFID”, so when Mythbusters contacted TI, it’ [more...]

Date: 2008-09-04 21:24:41

RFID-enabled Poker Table

Gambling has gotten all the more secure with a new RFID-enabled poker table, ... to that of televised games. Wireless RFID chips are located at the bottom of a table, while RFID tags are fitted on a few deck of car… gadgets for women technology quotes computers microsoft ibm zune watch [more...]

Date: 2008-12-22 01:26:26

Vancouver Canucks Upgrade... off-ice

The Vancouver Canucks are outfitting GM Place with a unified communications system aimed at improving the fan experience and boosting staff ... productivity? Enhancements in their ticket scanning system, RFID capabilities, security management ... equipment supplier for Vancouver’s 2010 Winter Olympic Games definitely played a factor as this new in-house [more...]

Date: 2008-08-29 05:41:01

Changing for the Better

Its been a couple of months since I last updated this blog so I wanted to do a quick post letting folks know what I've been up to and what is ... are positive. About six months ago I changed jobs. I'm now a senior consultant at SecureState where ... researching a number of topics including the security of RFID prox cards used in many access control [more...]

Date: 2008-09-19 03:29:00

Arphid Watch: Trouble in the Emergency Room

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/jaaj-eif061908.php ((( ... frequency identification (RFID) in everyday life include security access cards, electronic toll ... These doctors took some RFID scanners into a room full of dainty, sensitive medical gizmos [more...]

Date: 2008-06-25 15:13:23

October 29, 2008: Homeward Bound!

Last night, Paul and I met up with Aaron Abrams (aka Kano from SGA episodes “The Lost Boys” and “The Hive”, and Marty G.’s writing partner on YPF) ... up from the hotel parking lot. It was a might pricey after awhile but, in my opinion, well worth ... contemporary – given the “big brother”, RFID, so many security reasons to eavesdrop on the populace [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 22:54:51

Advertisers kill Mythbusters spy-chip story

p2pnet news view Cool | Advertising:- “Credit-card companies killed Mythbusters segment on RFID vulnerabilities,” says a Boing Boing headline ... out of airing a program about how crappy the security in RFID tags is,” suggests the text, in turn linking ... outgunned …’ In the video,  “We were gonna do RFID and on several levels how hackable, how [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 13:32:04

To Be Continued

And that’s a wrap! Thus concludes the first episode of the Night Zero serial comic series, “Ashes”, and soon will begin the second episode, ... -flashback sequence and before the warehouse fire, so the office was actually our first indoor shoot ... . The location itself is a real office suite in downtown Seattle, complete with a secure lobby, RFID keycards [more...]

Date: 2008-12-13 01:19:24

Mobile Workforce Management Grows Stronger with Acquisition

Reliable electricity supply is a key part of achieving prevalent “Smart Energy, ... solutions group that further expands on SAT’s position as a leading global supplier of mobile workforce ... and communications foundation, RFID technology, secure wireless, support for hazardous location devices [more...]

Date: 2008-08-28 18:54:00

DESIGNER/DRAUGHTMAN

All In line with our expansion, we are seeking highly motivated and result orientated individual with positive attitude and right qualification to ... of conventional Security Seals & RFID Electronic Seals with factories and offices in Penang ... for all project phases. - To organise, preparation & submission of work to supplier/mould makers [more...]

Date: 2008-10-27 08:23:11

Mini sensor to improve detection of greenhouse gases

Governments could be able to more easily and cheaply monitor greenhouse gas emissions thanks to a miniature gas sensor being developed by a new ... , Security Related Articles: GE develops battery-free RFID tags Autonomous unmanned helicopters ... sensor technology into their products Security Phone [more...]

Date: 2008-10-29 01:27:22

25C3: Many RFID Cards Poorly Encrypted

Via Heise Security -Karsten Nohl, the security investigator who had a big hand in cracking NXP's Mifare Classic chips, says many RFID smartcards from other manufacturers are also vulnerable to a simple hacker attack. He told the 25th Chaos Communication Congress (25C3) in Berlin that "Almost all RFID cards use [more...]

Date: 2009-01-02 15:28:00

Google + P&G = RFID + data mining

Parallelnormal is not encouraged by the companies’ new innovation-idea-swapping agreement. All in it together. CC/Kenneth Lu This item ( ... to bear RFID tags, which for the first time will match each of us to the individual items ... Media Info Center Posted in Big Brother, Globalism, Homeland Security, Personal tech, Privacy, RFID [more...]

Date: 2008-11-29 22:43:56

Three + Three = Three? Does Security Lose Out?

Contributed by Joanne C. Kelleher I received a notice from the event production firm, Worldwide Business Research (WBR) ... to improve packaging and labeling and guarantee patient safety and pedigree compliance. In response ... around Procurement, Information Management, Warehouse Management, Supply Chain Security, RFID, Anti [more...]

Date: 2008-11-20 17:05:30

Biz travelers howl over US gov RFIDs

Border (in)security A travel industry group has called on the US government to halt its use of new machinery that remotely reads government issued identification cards at border crossings until the safety of the new system can be better understood.… Full published article at: http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co [more...]

Date: 2008-12-01 23:01:01

MythBusters co-host Adam Savage backpedles on RFID vulnerabiliies

Mythbusters’ Adam Savage now retracted the comments he made to the Last HOPE audience, saying that he got his facts wrong ... the Discovery Channel to pull the plug on an episode dedicated to security holes in RFID. “There’s been a lot of talk about this RFID thing, and I have to admit that I got some of my facts wrong [more...]

Date: 2008-09-05 16:44:25

Infuriating, but unsurprising

I've been talking about RFID as a security risk for a long time now.. ... to NOT have this "feature"....So I have an RFID blocking wallet, and passport folio.Labels: Geek, Money, Mythbusting ... . Now, my card companies have sent me two cards that have RFID tags in them, without my requesting [more...]

Date: 2008-09-01 01:05:00

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