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Why Near Field Communication?
Problem
Near Field Communication (NFC) is an emerging technology used to transfer data between mobile devices. NFC technology contains several vulnerabilities that put sensitive data and the device at risk of being exploited by hackers.
Inspiration
As a computer science student, aspiring minor for college, enthusiast and passionist, computers are a big part of my life. With the development of modern technologies and research towards innovating older technologies to integrate into people's everyday lives. Such can be seen with Near Field Communication (NFC), NFC is relatively old but has been put into so many new technologies and features putting the technology in a trend that I thought of creating a security program to help mitigate the security risks involved with NFC technologies. My goal for this project is to Provide higher security or a warning program for standard NFC systems. My passion is derived from my interest in mobile applications and how scalable digital technology can be, the topic is in everyone’s pockets, every smartphone has some capability with NFC technology, and Apple pushing the trend with Apple Pay and Sharing and other big tech companies like Samsung using NFC to charge phones it is a topic that would be interesting to look into.
Our Customers
NFC technologies are becoming more and more prevalent in modern society. As with any new technology, there are increased risks with increased benefits. The existing applications of NFC technology are primarily geared toward ease of use, such as contactless payment and IoT communication. Due to the physical nature of NFC technology, there are many vulnerabilities. While there are existing methods of protecting data such as data hiding (steganography), the field is relatively unexplored. Personnel with any modern smartphone, iPhone 6s and above for Android it will vary but certain phones from 2013 and above and all android phones compatible with Android 9+ and released later than 2016, are the targeted customers. Since Apple products concern property OS components and hardware, the project will be focused more on Android security from NFC skimming attacks.
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Research Finding
Current solutions that exist to protect secure data transfers consist of systems of authentication, verification, and authorization. These solutions are a standard security implementation for NFC applications for centralized devices such as a phone or smartwatch. NFC tag security is still a little weak, even though some centralized devices have verification for tags when on the lock screen. There are still devices that compliment aged security tactics, which can be a problem alongside modern vulnerabilities.
