Finances FYI is a weekly series providing straightforward finance tips and best practices to help improve financial literacy. Technological advancements have made financial transactions quicker and ...

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" ...

Targeting the rapidly emerging market for embedded RFID readers, two companies are introducing low-cost multiprotocol RFID readers for installation in printers and other equipment. RFID reader ...

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

Wireless card readers are everywhere — but they’re easy to spoof or otherwise attack if you have the right tools Wireless card readers are everywhere — but they’re easy to spoof or otherwise attack if ...

RFID credit cards are growing in popularity and have already been adopted by major credit card issuers. These cards use radio frequencies to allow the cardholder to pay at terminals by tapping their ...

All new MasterCards in Canada, as well as Visa cards from two of the big banks, supply cardholder info over radio waves. ((Canadian Press)) Most newly issued credit cards pose major fraud and privacy ...

Engineers at NEC have developed a RFID (radio frequency identification) card reader compatible with all three major wireless formats. The reader will be launched around April next year and a prototype ...

April 22, 2003 – Syscan International has developed a new RFID reader in a compact flash card. The device will cost under $150 and will plug into most handheld computers. SanDisk Corp. developed the ...

It’s kind of a convoluted title, but [Hudson’s] attempt to replace multiple HID Prox cards with one AVR chip didn’t fully pan out. The project started when he wanted to reduce the number of RFID ...