“Rieback’s paper “Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus?” suggests computer viruses could spread from RFID tags through readers into poorly written middleware applications and into enterprise backend systems and databases. Rieback “artificially” created a virus, rather than find vulnerabilities in a deployed RFID system. Industry reaction, while fast and furious in some cases, proved mixed. “With respect to the students involved, the paper as presented is rather weak,” said Kevin Ashton, ThingMagic Inc. vice president, and co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Auto-ID Center. “The ‘real’ virus, they claim to demonstrate in the paper, is not a virus, just a self-replicating piece of SQL code.””
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Global Industry Analysts Inc. released a report forecasting the outlook on the global smart card market to reach 10.9 billion units by 2015. GIA credits the growth driven largely by major initiatives in the financial, government and security sectors, with the telecom sector at the way ahead of the pack as the largest end-user. Increasing usage of contactless technology, newer applications and mandatory EMV migration across countries are also major drivers boosting the global market for smart cards. read more »The European Association for Biometrics (EAB) is focusing on a goal of driving the research and development of biometrics and building the future of the industry around a concern for end-user privacy protection. read more »United Arab Emirates (UAE) travelers prefer making payments via mobile rather than using cash or credit card, according to a recent survey commissioned by travel technology and transaction processor Amadeus. read more »AT&T will launch a mobile security platform in 2012 to help protect customers from mobile virus, malware and spyware, according to a Reuters report. The service, of which details are still scarce, will probably follow a subscription model, like PC based anti-virus software. read more »The Auriemma Consulting Group (ACG) has announced the launch of its new Mobile Payments Report, a market research service that examines the mobile phone as a payments device, financial managing tool, marketing channel and as a method of engaging with consumers. read more »A research team at the Center for Nanoscale Science and Engineering (CNSE) at North Dakota State University (NDSU) has developed an antennaless RFID tag designed to offer enhanced tracking of metal and liquids. read more » |
