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 ...

Secure card maker HID is objecting to a demonstration of a hacking tool at this week’s Black Hat Federal security conference in Washington, D.C. that could make it easy to clone a wide range of ...

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 ...

RFID-chips -- commonly used for wireless payments, access key cards, and even to open car doors -- have been shown relatively easy to hack.That's the news coming from the University of Virginia after ...

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, ...

Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Texas Instruments have announced early success in experiments on prototypes of a new type of radio frequency identification (RFID) chip ...

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 ...