When it comes to security, one of the most renowned conferences is the Black Hat conference. The conference discusses a wide array of computer security topics as well as demonstrations to prove technological weaknesses and threats. Well, it looks like one of the security presenters was going too far with his RFID flaw demo in which the company HID Global was threatening to sue for intellectual property reasons.

A security researcher scheduled to present information on issues with radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology at the Black Hat Federal conference this week was silenced by security technology giant HID Global, which claimed the presentation would violate its intellectual property.

The presentation would have described the technical foundations of RFID technology and demonstrate the security problems with contactless RFID, showing off a device capable of cloning HID cards, said the would-be presenter, Chris Paget, director of research and development for security firm IOActive. The device is similar to other RFID cloners and was built using $20 in parts bought on Ebay, Paget said.[more]

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