Security researcher [Fran Brown] sent us this tip about his Tastic RFID Thief, which can stealthily snag the information off an RFID card at long range. If you’ve worked with passive RFID before, you ...

COMMON THIEVES are using every tech tool they can get their hands on these days to steal everything from credit card numbers to bank passwords to full-blown identities. That’s why you want to be extra ...

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RFID, or radio frequency identification, has come a long way since the early 2000s. At that time, Walmart was the first big retailer to experiment with the new tracking technology, which cost an ...

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Radio frequency identification isn’t exactly a new technology. In fact, its origins reach all the way back to World War II, when different air forces needed a way to differentiate their aircraft from ...

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After barcodes were put into use more than 50 years ago, the technology revolutionized the grocery business. The technology also revolutionized nearly everything else in the supply chain and logistics ...

RFID credit cards are embedded with a tag that enables contactless payments, one of the safest ways to pay. If you have an EZ Pass in your car or a microchip in your pet, or if you’ve used a hotel ...