Viruses leap to smart radio tags

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Viruses leap to smart radio tags

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Computer viruses could be about to take a giant leap and start spreading via smart barcodes, warn experts.

Security researchers have infected a Radio Frequency ID tag with a computer virus to show how the technology is vulnerable to malicious hackers.

The researchers warn that RFID tags could help mount many different types of attacks on computer systems.

Makers of radio tag systems were urged by the group to introduce safeguards to guard against RFID-borne bugs.


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it's hardly surprising, but it's just given me an image in my head of some poor guy frantically trying to install Norton's bloated arse onto 6 gazillion RFID tags before the truck leaves the warehouse :roll:
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