Thieves are always looking for high-tech ways to steal your info, but RFID-blocking wallets don't have to look boring. Protect your credit cards in style.

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Despite demonstrations to show it's possible, documented cases of RFID credit card fraud are unknown. And as security professionals know, there is a huge gulf between potential crime and actual crime.

Just a few decades ago, buying things meant going to the bank — your own physical branch, mind you, during the brief hours it was open — to take out cash. If you didn't have time for that, or ran out ...

[Navic] wrote in to show us his latest project. This is a portable smart card reader with a nice LCD display. he just happened to have a Basic Stamp 2px, smart card reader, and smart card ...

[Navic] added a slew of abilities to his RFID reader. It’s now a full-featured RFID reader and smart card writer with extras. When we looked at it last time the unit was just an RFID and smart card ...

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 ...

The project utilizes a PIC16F628A with an on-chip comparator in order to feed the output from the op-amp directly into the PIC and extract the digital signal from an RFID card reader. The use of ...