Many credit cards include RFID chips. The chips use radio-frequency identification to transmit payment information over short distances. Credit card companies use RFID to enable "contactless-payments" ...

Security researcher [Fran Brown] sent us this tip about his Tastic RFID Thief, which can stealthily snag the information off an RFID card at long range. If you’ve worked with passive RFID before, you ...

RFID credit cards are growing in popularity and have already been adopted by major credit card issuers. These cards use radio frequencies to allow the cardholder to pay at terminals by tapping their ...

In an increasingly cashless world, convenience comes at a cost. With the widespread use of RFID-enabled credit and debit cards, a new threat has emerged—digital pickpocketing. Without any physical ...

Finances FYI is a weekly series providing straightforward finance tips and best practices to help improve financial literacy. Technological advancements have made financial transactions quicker and ...

RFID hacking has been around for years, but so far all the builds to sniff data out of someone’s wallet have been too large, too small a range, or were much too complicated for a random Joe to build ...

I just received a new credit card that has an RFID chip in it, but I've heard reports that thieves might be able to steal my account information from it. Should I be worried? It depends on whom you ...

When it comes to securing our online bank accounts, security experts tell us to use strong passwords, not recycle old passcodes, and to add multi-factor authentication to our accounts. But having good ...

Conspiracy theorists and civil libertarians, fear not. The U.S. government will not use radio-frequency identification tags in the passports it issues to millions of Americans in the coming years.