Hmm. OK.
I’m not sure what to make of this one. RFID is not my specialty to say the least. Any one have thoughts on this one?
From RFID Journal:
NeoCatena, a Sunnyvale, Calif., startup company, has emerged to address an issue its founders believe is of growing importance to end users of RFID technology: system security. The firm has created a security appliance designed to act as a firewall between RFID interrogators and the edge server of middleware an end user employs to collect and transmit RFID tag data upstream to its enterprise software.
The appliance, known as RF-Wall, runs software developed by NeoCatena to protect an RFID network from counterfeit RFID tags, and from attempts to use tags encoded with malware to introduce a virus to back-end systems, or to execute some type of breach to the security of sensitive data, according to the company’s cofounders, Boris Wolf and Lukas Grunwald.
While there have been no publicized incidents involving the use of RFID-based network attacks or counterfeit RFID tags, Wolf and Grunwald believe the threats to be real, and say experiments performed by Grunwald dating back to 2004 have proven such things possible.
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