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

I just received a new credit card that has an RFID chip in it, but I've heard reports that thieves might be able to steal my account information from it. Should I be worried? It depends on whom you ...

PUCHHEIM, GERMANY - Newsaktuell - 18 November 2025 - ELATEC, a leading manufacturer of access technologies, specializing in ...

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.

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 ...

Engineers at NEC have developed an RFID card reader that’s compatible with all three major wireless formats. The reader will be launched around April next year, and a prototype was unveiled today at a ...

The project utilizes a PIC16F628A with an on-chip comparator in order to feed the output from the op-amp directly into the PIC and extract the digital signal from an RFID card reader. The use of ...

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 ...