Radio frequency identification tags (RFID) can be used to spread computer viruses and attack middleware applications and the databases behind them, a group of Netherlands-based scientists said Wednesday.
At an IEEE’ conference on pervasive computing in Pisa, Italy, Melanie Rieback, a third-year PhD student at Amsterdam’s Vrije Universiteit, presented a paper that outlined the threat to RFID systems and laid out how the small amount of memory in a tag — in some cases as little as 128 bytes — could be used to corrupt databases.
Coming Soon: Viruses Spread by RFID Tags
