KILL features of RFID tags in a medical environment: Boon or burden?
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publisher
CSREA Press
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Computer and Information Science / Centre for Security Research
RAS ID
4056
Abstract
With the increasing usage of RFID systems and their potential in a range of common applications especially medical related fields, it is important to investigate the weaknesses of the technology and the potential risks that accompany them. Current RFID standards allow for the use of a KILL command to enable users to effectively switch a tag off. However, it has been demonstrated that this method may be reversed and allow for the recovery of sensitive information as well as allowing a possible avenue for attack. Thus while the concept of a command to destroy an RFID tag is required the current implementation is ineffective.
Comments
Bolan, C. (2007, June). KILL features of RFID tags in a medical environment: Boon or burden?. In Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Security and Management (p. 520-524). Available here