RFID technology allows you to simply tap or wave your credit card near a card reader or ATM. Using this technology to make purchases gives you the ability to complete transactions within seconds.

Step two is to make a copy of the RFID badge-reader card. Step three is the penetration tester, which is then able to get access to the target building.

RFID is a catch-all word for Radio Frequency IDentification. In this case, we’re talking about any system that operates in the 13.56 MHz band, including NFC, MiFare, Smart Cards, and the like.

Apparently, both these RFID readers take the hex value of an RFID card, convert those bytes to base 10, and pass each digit through a lookup table.

RFID readers such as those built by HID constantly beacon a signal. When an RFID card is in proximity, the card is energized by the reader, the researchers said, and sends bits back in the clear ...

While RFID bank cards are a relative novelty in Europe, use is more commonplace in the US and Japan. Some Mobil petrol stations and McDonalds in the US are now carrying RFID credit card readers.

The RFID-enabled access control card reader must accommodate the different RFID transponder technologies From personal protective equipment to industrial tools to high-value medical devices, the ...

Next week at the Black Hat Briefings in Las Vegas, Brown will release the end result: a modified RFID reader that can capture data from 125KHz low frequency RFID badges from up to three feet away ...

RFID tag information can be communicated in real-time through WiFi, CDMA, GSM or Bluetooth connections. Ambrose Tam, Wireless Dynamics’ CEO, is so confident in the prospects for the SDiD card that he ...

“The problem is the card and the card reader,” said Nohl. “They speak the same cryptography language that is flawed. Both need to be replaced. There is a lot of infrastructure to be replaced.

According to NXP, the version of the SmartMX chip being used was designed specifically for Germany’s ID card, and is 100 percent compatible with the ISO 14443-A RFID standard. Reisen says Germany is a ...