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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A transmitter/receiver that reads the contents of RFID tags in the vicinity. Also called an "RFID interrogator." The maximum distance between the reader's antenna and the tag vary, depending on ...

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

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 ...

Conspiracy theorists and civil libertarians, fear not. The U.S. government will not use radio-frequency identification tags in the passports it issues to millions of Americans in the coming years.

In an ambitious project designed to provide citizens with a more secure form of identification, as well as a secure method for conducting business via the Internet, Germany will begin issuing ...