Last month the Brain family adopted a dog from the local animal shelter. And when we picked her up after being spayed, we discovered that she had been “chipped.” In other words, the shelter had inserted a microchip under the skin in her neck. By holding a scanner over her, the vet could read her [...]
The team that produced the RFDump research/hacker tool for cloning and altering data stored on radio-frequency ID tags has now come out with a product to thwart RFID hackers. German security researcher Lukas Grunwald, who made headlines two years ago for uncovering security vulnerabilities in new electronic passports being adopted by the U.S. and other [...]
