MUNICH, Germany — The Chaos Computer Club (Hamburg, Germany) has cracked the encryption scheme of NXPs popular Mifare Classic RFID chip. The device is used in many contactless smartcard applications ...

Global semiconductor company NXP has released its Ucode DNA integrated circuit—a passive EPC Gen 2 UHF RFID chip that the company says is the first to provide cryptographic authentication. By using a ...

New research that shows smart cards with encrypted RFID chips might not be as secure as previously thought is raising concerns in Boston, where the subway CharlieCards use just such technology. The ...

Hacking some RFID-based technology is so frighteningly simple that it has even surprised the researchers who have recently demonstrated things like how it's possible to clone RFID cards, or to insert ...

A lightweight encryption technology that uses a one-time, self-destructing encryption key will land on RFID chips sometime next year, according to the firm that developed it. Tutarus already sells the ...

Verayo, a Silicon Valley startup company formed by MIT researchers, has begun offering a commercialized version of its anti-cloning invention as a security solution for radio frequency identification.

A security expert has cracked one of the U.K.’s new biometric passports, which the British government hopes will cut down on cross-border crime and illegal immigration. The attack, which uses a common ...