A paper presented by Melanie Rieback, a third-year Amsterdam’s Vrije Universiteti PhD student, at the IEEE conference in Pisa, Italy, on Wednesday sent waves through the radio frequency identification (RFID) technology industry.
Rieback’s paper “Is Your Cat Infected with a Computer Virus?” suggests computer viruses could spread from RFID tags through readers into poorly written middleware applications and into enterprise backend systems and databases. Rieback “artificially” created a virus, rather than find vulnerabilities in a deployed RFID system.
RFID World Still Reacting Strongly to Virus Research
