Comments on: Computer Viruses on RFIDs, Fact or Fiction? http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/computer-viruses-on-rfids-fact-or-fiction/ Internet Safety, Windows Updates, Internet News, and More Sat, 20 Mar 2010 11:20:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: kurt wismer http://www.theinternetpatrol.com/computer-viruses-on-rfids-fact-or-fiction/#comment-3792 kurt wismer Tue, 21 Mar 2006 18:06:17 +0000 /?p=1281#comment-3792 there are some misconceptions floating around about the RFID virus thing... the RFID tags only served as a storage/distribution medium, not unlike a floppy disk or USB flash drive... it's the software that uses the data on the RFID tags that may be vulnerable to the types of attacks mentioned in that paper... specifically, the paper points out that input validation bugs could allow for an arbitrary code execution vulnerability (and they just happened to use 'viruses' in order to demonstrate that fact)... there are some misconceptions floating around about the RFID virus thing… the RFID tags only served as a storage/distribution medium, not unlike a floppy disk or USB flash drive… it’s the software that uses the data on the RFID tags that may be vulnerable to the types of attacks mentioned in that paper…

specifically, the paper points out that input validation bugs could allow for an arbitrary code execution vulnerability (and they just happened to use ‘viruses’ in order to demonstrate that fact)…

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