Black Hat Event Highlights RFID Security Threats

"The Black Hat conference - an annual event where security professionals get in touch with their inner hacker and vice versa - has for nine years been a stage for detailing new security exploits and sharing visions of the future. Among the darker demonstrations, Kevin Mahaffey, director of development at Flexilis, operated a radio-based voltage-controller oscillator that acted as a disrupter that could shoot a frequency beam at an RFID reader. As it emitted a shrill whine, the RFID disrupter jammed the reader or eliminated a comprehensive reading of RFID tags, which in actual use could play havoc with supply-chain operations using the tags." Source: networkworld.com