Can someone steal your credit card info from your pocket? Yes, if you have a contactless card with an RFID chip, the data can be read from it. What can help steal your credit card info? Contactless payment cards have radio frequency identification tags in them which can be read Read more…
What you should know about making a contactless payments How easy is it to get at data stored on your contactless bank card, it’s easy than you think. Card data scanned without authorisation BBC Rip Off Britain investigate how easy it is to use your bank card data scanned using Read more…
We present to your attention a presentation showing the ease of hacking RFID devices and access to data using standard NFC smartphones. The presentation describes potential RFID vulnerabilities in various devices (Mifare, RFID biometric passports, Mastercard PayPass, VISA PayWave), and how to exploit them using NFC smartphones. It shows how Read more…
Figures have revealed contactless payments now account for 18% of sales – up from 7% a year ago. A report by the UK Cards Association said that contactless transactions were higher in the six months to June than they were for the whole of last year. The average transaction cost Read more…
Contactless card payments are fast and convenient, but convenience comes at a price: they are vulnerable to fraud. Some of these vulnerabilities are unique to contactless payment cards, and others are shared with the Chip and PIN cards – those that must be plugged into a card reader – upon Read more…
Many have handed their card over to a bartender or shop keeper to tap the machine when paying, but you really shouldn’t Paying for goods is even easier with contactless pay. A tap and away you go. But if you are asked to pass your card over to the bartender Read more…
Watch this YouTube video regarding RFID thefts and how easy a security expert clones, copies and makes payments using easy to buy and make scanners. This information is not hard to find and easily make you understand why you should be using RFID shielding. The video also talks about using Read more…