Has your cat gone phishing? [Microwave Surfing]

A radio frequency identification (RFID) system has two parts: a (usually portable) reader and a tiny transponder (radio tag, RFID chip), which is embedded in or attached to the tracked object (such as a piece of baggage on an airport conveyor belt or a pet). Researchers from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam demonstrate in (M. Rieback et al, 2006) how these tiny RFID tags can be used to spread malicious computer code. Since the tags have a very limited memory (typically less than 1,024 b), it had been generally assumed that they were unsuitable vectors for introducing viruses into computers connected to RFID readers (W. Knight, 2006).