Virus Jumps to RFID

MrShaggy writes "According to a BBC article, researchers have been able to make the jump between RFID tags and viruses. They found that the mere act of scanning a mere 127 bytes could cause an attack vector that would corrupt databases. From the article;'"This is intended as a wake-up call," said Andrew Tanenbaum, one of the researchers in the computer science department at Amsterdam's Free University that did the work revealing the weaknesses on smart tags. "We ask the RFID industry to design systems that are secure," he said.'"

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I already hacked my new RFID passport biometrics

[Anonymous Coward]

I figure any terrorists that might want to kill Americans would be scared off by my 13 inch penis and the potential for SQL injection.