Blog Entries tagged 'Wireless ID Theft'

Wireless ID Theft Part 2: RFID Fraud

development@gill-media.com — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

In our last article about wireless identity theft we covered wardriving: the practice of finding and exploiting open wireless connections. Identity fraud via wardriving is unnerving, to say the least, but RFID-enabled fraud is downright spooky. Security experts fear that this may allow fraudsters to steal personal information from your wallet at a distance. RFID Basics

To understand how this works you need to know what an RFID chip. RFID stands for Radio Frequency ID. An RFID [...]

Wireless Identity Theft

development@gill-media.com — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:00:00 +0100

We want you to protect your good name, but we don't want you to get paranoid about it! Nevertheless, some recent developments in identity theft are pretty frightening. What if we told you a criminal could steal your personal information out of thin air? Scary? Yes - and absolutely possible. New technology lets fraudsters steal your identity through wireless communications channels

There are two forms of wireless ID theft that security analysts ro [...]