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 ...

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

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 ...

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, ...

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" ...

When it comes to securing our online bank accounts, security experts tell us to use strong passwords, not recycle old passcodes, and to add multi-factor authentication to our accounts. But having good ...