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Radio-Frequency IDentification (RFID) technologies have been widely used in physical ID cards in educational institutions due to its low-cost, simple integration and convenience. In a university campus, the RFID technology can be used for proximity-based authentication for services such as access control, student/employee attendance record, or in-campus payments. These RFID-based technologies present vulnerabilities that, if exploited, can compromise the university campus authentications systems. RFID skimming and tag killing are examples of attacks that are simple to execute and have a high impact on their victims. This paper exploits a tag-related vulnerability of an ID Card based on RFID technology for proximity-based authentication inside a university campus. The proof of concept presented shows that, by using low-cost commercial-off-the-shelf hardware and open-source software, it is simple to clone an ID card and perform RFID skimming, harming the real ID card users. Possible countermeasures are later introduced and discussed.

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With the increasing technological advances that mark society daily, it is essential to analyze, not only the behavior of consumers, but also the behavior of companies facing market changes. It is necessary to distinguish a company that achieves success from one that is not able to succeed, over time. Nokia was the mobile phone market leader for about fourteen years. The launch of the iPhone, by Apple, in 2007, was one of the main reasons for the loss of that leadership. Nokia and its handset division were not able to adapt and demonstrate having dynamic capabilities. They had an excessive focus on their outdated product (their dumbphone), while not taking advantage of their internal innovative product developments to anticipate inevitable change in the market. To provide more depth to the present study a survey was performed and answered by 120 people.

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Teaching mobile robotics adequately is a complex task. Within the strategies found in the literature, the one used in this work includes the use of a simulator. This simulator represents the Autonomous Driving Competition of the Portuguese Robotics Open. Currently, the simulator supports two different robots and all challenges of the autonomous driving competition. This simulator was used at a Robotics course of the Integrated Master Degree in Informatics and Computing Engineering at the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto. In order to study the influence of the simulator in the college students learning process, a survey was conducted. The results and its corresponding analysis indicate that the simulator is suited to teach some of the mobile robotics challenges crossing several fields of study, including image processing, computer vision and control.

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Pervasive and useR fOcused biomeTrics bordEr projeCT (PROTECT) is an EU project funded by the Horizon 2020 research and Innovation Programme. The main aim of PROTECT was to build an advanced biometric-based person identification system that works robustly across a range of border crossing types and that has strong user-centric features. This work presents the case study of the multibiometric verification system developed within PROTECT. The system has been developed to be suitable for different borders such as air, sea, and land borders. The system covers two use cases: the walk-through scenario, in which the traveller is on foot; the drive-through scenario, in which the traveller is in a vehicle. Each deployment includes a different set of biometric traits and this study illustrates how to evaluate such multibiometric system in accordance with international standards and, in particular, how to overcome practical problems that may be encountered when dealing with multibiometric evaluation, such as different score distributions and missing scores.

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