Today, we rely on contactless smart cards to perform several critical operations (e.g., payments and accessing buildings). Attacking smart cards can have severe consequences, such as losing money or leaking sensitive information. Although the security protections embedded in smart cards have evolved over the years, those with weak security properties are still commonly used. Among the different solutions, blocking cards are affordable devices to protect smart cards. These devices are placed close to the smart cards, generating a noisy jamming signal or shielding them. Whereas vendors claim the reliability of their blocking cards, no previous study has ever focused on evaluating their effectiveness.
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RCH PayBox is the free application that allows merchants to accept digital payments quickly and easily. By downloading the app on an Android smartphone or tablet it is possible to join the services of our Partners to receive electronic transactions with debit, credit cards and digital wallets.
The app was developed for RCH S.p.A. and to date it is a commercial success, counting around 2k downloads and hundreds of active users. Visit the product page to find out more.
The impact of global warming and the imperative to limit climate change have stimulated the need to develop new solutions based on renewable energy sources. One of the emerging trends in this endeavor are the Electric Vehicles (EVs), which use electricity instead of traditional fossil fuels as a power source, relying on the Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) paradigm. The novelty of such a paradigm requires careful analysis to avoid malicious attempts. An attacker can exploit several surfaces, such as the remote connection between the Distribution Grid and Charging Supply or the authentication system between the charging Supply Equipment and the Electric Vehicles. However, V2G architecture’s high cost and complexity in implementation can restrain this field’s research capability.
Weavez gives birth to relationships between students. This project started from the University of Padova. It is an instrument to develop friendship relationships, feeding university experiences.
For more information on weavez please go through our Website and see our Elevator Pitch (in italian), minute 51:22.
This thesis is an experimental evaluation of NFC and RFID security of contactless cards protocols, including ISO 14443 and EMV.
Contactless smart cards are commonly used in every day life for a wide variety of ap- plications ranging from tap-and-go payment cards, access control for buildings, parking tickets and toll highways as well as ski-passes and public transport systems. Moreover, most of the phones marketed nowadays embed NFC chips allowing card emulation. Thus, smartphones have turned out to provide the same functionality as smart cards, proving enhanced high-level security features. Nevertheless, some smart cards systems, including payment systems, are vulnerable to attacks. As a result, end-users must carefully protect their cards privacy when keeping contactless smart cards in their pockets.
I have made a youtube course on C programming language, it is available on YouTube.
To practise my skills and learn C, I decided to start a C programming language course, entirely free and avialable on my YouTube channel. All the code for the course is avialable here.
In this homework we had to elaborate information from two airport stations: jfk, san francisco.
In this assignment we had to elaborate some queries to gather information from two airport stations which gathered daily information such as: wind speed, average temperature. The report and code are available on github.
