“RFID tags may be vulnerable to viruses.”, say computer science researchers. (
RFID info)
No RFID viruses have been released yet but RFID tags have the characteristics to be engineered to exploit vulnerabilities in bank-end system. The attack methods can be SQL injection or buffer overflow attack.
Patick Simpson, a master’s student, took only four hours to write a proof-of-concept, self-replicating RFID virus, which is small enough to fit on a RFID tag with as little as 114 byes of memory.
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