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 ...

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 ...

The use of RFID and contactless smart card technology is exploding and devices (e.g. tags, tokens, cards) all require embedded memory arrays that suit the needs of the application. All of these ...

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The type of reader you would require would depend on the distance at which you wanted to interrogate the bank card. You could use a passive high-frequency (HF) transponder, but the read distance would ...

When it comes to securing our online bank accounts, security experts tell us to use strong passwords, not recycle old passcodes, and to add multi-factor authentication to our accounts. But having good ...

In an increasingly digital world, protecting personal information has become paramount. With the rise of RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) and NFC (Near Field Communication) technologies, the ...

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

A U.K. firm has developed an on/off “switch” for RFID cards that could protect cardholders from being hacked. The cardholder activates the RFID transmission by squeezing the card between his thumb and ...

Credifence, a consumer security brand operated by Rara Digital UAB, announces the commercial availability of its RFID blocking card, a passive security device designed to address growing consumer ...