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 ...

There’s already an RFID security brouhaha brewing in Washington, and if some people have their way, it won’t be the last legal fight waged in the nation’s capital over use of the wireless technology.

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...