<B>From Slashdot: RFID Virus?</B>
MrShaggy writes
"According to a BBC article, researchers have been able to make the
jump between RFID tags and viruses. They found that the mere act of
scanning a mere 127 bytes could cause an attack vector that would
corrupt databases. From the article;'"This is intended as a wake-up
call," said Andrew Tanenbaum, one of the researchers in the computer
science department at Amsterdam's Free University that did the work
revealing the weaknesses on smart tags. "We ask the RFID industry to
design systems that are secure," he said.'"