Here's the skinny on RFID credit cards. If you're using a card with an RFID chip, and your merchant has a compatible card reader, you don't have to swipe your card when making a transaction.

The PDA is also equipped with a Wi-Fi card to access the museum’s WLAN and the central database. The visitors are issued a PDA when they arrive at the museum. After entering their e-mail address into ...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) chips have made cashless payments commonplace and opened the way to automatic inventory control. However, they've also made it possible for credit card ...

There is an older style RFID chip that operates at 125 kilohertz (Khz) and the new style chip that operates at 13.56 megahertz (Mhz), the same as in the credit card chips. 125 kilohertz is a much ...

Chip-based cards, which would be difficult for thieves to reproduce, are being offered as a safer alternative to today's magnetic stripe credit cards, which are easy to copy.

RFID payment systems are one of those things that the community seems to be divided on. Some only see the technology as a potential security liability, and will go a far as to disable the RFID chip… ...

Fortunately, theft with RFID cards is low due to built-in protections, which means that RFID cards are considered just as safe as the new EMV chips found in some debit and credit cards.

RFID payments work by transmitting information between a credit card — specifically, the computer chip and antenna embedded within it — and a contactless reader.

Security researchers at Quarkslab have discovered a backdoor in millions of RFID cards developed by Shanghai Fudan Microelectronics (FMSH). When properly exploited, this backdoor could be used ...

Not all credit cards have an embedded RFID chip, but if your card has one, it’s easy to spot. Look for a small metal microchip on either end of the card and a Wi-Fi-type logo. That indicates ...