Collaborate Disseminate
Apple AirTags are useful little devices. They essentially use iPhones in the wild as a mesh network to tell the owner where the AirTag is. Now, researchers have shown that …read more Continue reading Apple AirTags Hacked And Cloned With Voltage Glitching
[Guillermo] started a new job a while back. That job came with an NFC access card, which was used for booking rooms and building access. The card also served as …read more Continue reading Cracking the MiFare Classic Could Get You Free Snacks
When you swipe/insert your card at a payment terminal, what information does the vendor receive?
For example:
Card number
CCV
Expiration
First and last name
Any individual identifiers?
Does Apple Pay or newer payment technologies change … Continue reading Information exposure during a credit card / NFC transaction
If there’s one thing that can trigger people, it’s the printer racket. Printer manufacturers who put DRM-like features into their consumables are rightly viewed as Satan’s spawn, and while these …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: February 27, 2022
Contactless payment by means of NFC-enabled bank cards has made our everyday transactions far more convenient over the last decade, but there still remains the tedious task of finding the …read more Continue reading An NFC Antenna Ring With A Chip As Its Jewel
Anyone who uses a smartphone will likely be familiar with NFC technology, which is used for such things as contactless payments, data sharing between devices and secure logins. To demonstrate the versatility of the technology when combined with printed… Continue reading Paper-thin piano demonstrates the power of printed electronics and NFC
Researchers at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) have developed a novel, high-tech form of fabric that foreshadows a future where items of clothing can”talk” to one another, and purchases might be made with a high-five or wave of the arm. It m… Continue reading Extended-range NFC fabric lets clothes “talk” to each other
NFC tags are a frequent target for experimentation, whether simply by using an app on a mobile phone to interrogate or write to tags, by incorporating them in projects by …read more Continue reading NFC Performance: It’s All In The Antenna
I have an information security class this semester, and I need to write a paper evaluating how secure NFC and RFID technology is.
A lot of questions previously asked here are at least 3 years old, and I’m sure computing power within NFC an… Continue reading What kind of security protocols do current NFC or RFID based technologies use?
Paying with credit card’s NFC. I know about tokenization and all that, but does that actually protect my card against theft when the terminal is malicious?
Continue reading If the terminal is malicious, is paying with NFC still safe?