[Navic] wrote in to show us his latest project. This is a portable smart card reader with a nice LCD display. he just happened to have a Basic Stamp 2px, smart card reader, and smart card ...

Security researcher [Fran Brown] sent us this tip about his Tastic RFID Thief, which can stealthily snag the information off an RFID card at long range. If you’ve worked with passive RFID before, you ...

Pull out your credit card and flip it over. If the back is marked with the words "PayPass," "Blink," that triangle of nested arcs that serves as the universal symbol for wireless data or a few other ...

All new MasterCards in Canada, as well as Visa cards from two of the big banks, supply cardholder info over radio waves. ((Canadian Press)) Most newly issued credit cards pose major fraud and privacy ...

To address the cumbersome issues of RFID reader modules, IME researchers have integrated all the discrete components required for the RF section of the reader module onto a single piece of silicon. A ...