Contactless chips for limited use have been popular in public transportation for some years. NXP, just like in mifare case, has been leading this market with mifare ultralight. Ultralight chips have limited memory and no crypto…

It’s quite common nowadays to talk about security leaks of mifare classic chips. It’s easy to “hack” the chip, clone it, read the contents of it without knowing the keys, and so on; the list goes on like this. Even the license holder NXP is recommending to migrate to mifare plus…

According to the post on NFCNews, Nokia release its first NFC handset which holds the NFC application on the SIM card, rather than the handset itself.

Well, let’s go through the concepts first. We can say that the heart of an NFC system is the secure element. Secure…

When it comes to card business, almost everything is different between US and Europe. US market is huge and very mature. US never migrated to EMV, while Europe has almost completed the migration. (Well mostly)

My previous post on Apple’s NFC support on iPhone got the most hits among all the content here. Luckily, it turns out that next generation iPhone will have the NFC support. Near Field Communications World.com’s post was linking the Apple Insider’s post, which has all the…

According to the post at NFC News, ASK released a contactless reader device for home use. Reader is connected via USB port and is compatible with all popular contactless card types.