How digital payments and the rise of contactless technology have made credit and debit cards more vulnerable to unauthorized scanning devices and RFID skimming. The latest risks of digital ...

Many credit cards include RFID chips. The chips use radio-frequency identification to transmit payment information over short distances. Credit card companies use RFID to enable "contactless-payments" ...

As contactless payment adoption accelerates globally, cybersecurity researchers report a measurable increase in RFID skimming incidents targeting credit cards, electronic passports, and identification ...

Targeting the rapidly emerging market for embedded RFID readers, two companies are introducing low-cost multiprotocol RFID readers for installation in printers and other equipment. RFID reader ...

This article is the third in a series of considerations regarding embedded RFID readers for engineers, solution architects and product managers. In recent years, multinational corporations such as ...

The credit card companies are taking the “necessary steps” so consumers can use the cards in a secure way, said ITRC executive director Jay Foley. “There is no real pickpocketing capability there. You ...

reed to purchase the new MC3000 handheld devices from Symbol Technologies, Holtsville, N.Y., for 5,000 convenience stores nationally. Symbol is announcing the deal today at the National Retail ...

Engineers at NEC have developed an RFID card reader that’s compatible with all three major wireless formats. The reader will be launched around April next year, and a prototype was unveiled today at a ...

[Carl] has done a lot of work developing a collection of RFID hardware. The two cards you see above are spoofers that can be programmed in the field using the keypad on the left, or the rather ...

It is hard to label any component of an RFID system as being more critical than any of the others. In past articles we have discussed the RFID tag, as well as, the RFID antenna hardware. Both of these ...