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NXP launches energy-metering chip

...be added." Security researchers have a history of cracking NXP chips. The Mifare Classic chip used in travel smartcards, including Transport for London's Oyster... Read more

11 October, 2010 by Tom Espiner

German ID cards hacked

...ID cards are being supplied by Dutch semiconductor company NXP. NXP's MiFare Classic cards, which were used in Oyster London travel cards, were repeatedly... Read more

31 August, 2010

NXP wins German ID card contract

...London's Oyster travel cards, but since being cracked in 2008, the MiFare Classic version of these cards is being phased out and replaced with... Read more

23 August, 2010 by David Meyer

Oyster card contract moves to Cubic

TfL has started a new contract with Cubic to manage the London travel smartcard, which will see HP Enterprise Services handle the back-office work Read more

18 August, 2010 by Tom Espiner
iCarte Reader - MIFARE 1.2.1

iCarte Reader - MIFARE 1.2.1

...the iCarte Reader application to enable your iPhone to read and write MIFARE Classic 1K RFID tags and obtain MIFARE Classic 1K tag UIDs. iCarte... Read more

19 March, 2011

Oyster cracked in public, researcher claims

...be used to undermine the cryptography on smartcards which use NXP's Mifare Classic chip, such as the Oyster card and the Dutch OV-Chipkaart... Read more

27 October, 2008 by Tom Espiner

NXP sues university over 'Oyster crack'

...the security on the Oyster card, which uses an NXP chipset called Mifare Classic. The research had led on from a cryptographic crack of Mifare... Read more

8 July, 2008 by Tom Espiner

Dutch researchers release Oyster-hack details

...team, told ZDNet.co.uk on Tuesday that the security of the Mifare Classic chipset, used in Oyster cards and in the Dutch OV-Chipkaart... Read more

7 October, 2008 by Tom Espiner
The Dark Side of Security by Obscurity: And Cloning <endeca_term>Mifare Classic</endeca_term> Rail and Building Passes, Anywhere, Anytime

The Dark Side of Security by Obscurity: And Cloning Mifare Classic Rail and Building Passes, Anywhere, Anytime

MiFare Classic is the most popular contactless smart card with about 200 million... Read more

4 May, 2009

The A to Z of wireless

...a fortnight. Dutch researchers have also claimed there are vulnerabilities with the Mifare Classic chipset used on the cards that could enable criminals to clone... Read more

11 August, 2009 by Natasha Lomas
Behind the scenes at chip firm NXP

Behind the scenes at chip firm NXP

...numerous RFID transport card systems around the world. The cryptography on its MiFare Classic chips was cracked by researchers from Radboud University last year, while... Read more

10 July, 2009 by Tom Espiner

NXP to open up Mifare APIs for mobile software

...obtain the APIs, which will be provided royalty-free. The cryptography on Mifare Classic chips, used in travel smartcards including London's Oyster card, has... Read more

31 October, 2008 by Tom Espiner

NXP to shed up to 4,500 jobs

...several demonstrations of security flaws in travel smartcards that use NXP's Mifare Classic chip, including a crack of London's Oyster card by Dutch... Read more

12 September, 2008 by Tom Espiner

TfL Oyster deal break reason smells odd

...with the two outages in two weeks, or that security on the MiFare Classic chip used in the card has been repeatedly broken. However, apparently... Read more

8 August, 2008

Court rules university can publish Oyster crack

...University could publish the paper. Chip company NXP Semiconductors, which manufacturers the Mifare Classic chips used in the Oyster card, had tried to halt the... Read more

18 July, 2008 by Tom Espiner

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