Although the banks aim to have millions of them in our wallets by the end of this year, ‘no-swipe’ RFID credit cards are still viewed with apathy at best amongst consumers who feel they are not secure.
These cards do not require processing through a traditional swiping process where the data on the magnetic strip is […]

Contactless News has an embedded video from Avisian (publisher of RFID-related websites) and Identity Stronghold showing how the latter’s anti-RF (radio frequency) sleeves work. These are small specially designed envelopes that block out RFID readers. The basic principle applied is a Faraday Cage, which is named after physicist Michael Faraday and his experiments in 1836. […]

First cash wasn’t fast enough, too much change to count out.  Then credit cards were too slow, too much time spent signing or  entering your PIN.  Now we’ve got biometric fingerprint payments, just scan and go.
Introduced by Citibank in Singapore, where everything must happen at light speed, the new biometric fingerprint payment system is designed […]

Finextra reports that a group called the Smart Card Alliance (SCA) is refuting the findings of two researchers studying RFID-enabled contactless credit cards recently. [Note: The Finextra article does not have a link, and they refer to the Smart Card Assocation, which I believe is an error. Here is a link to what appears to […]