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Most of the universities or colleges, the lecturer has to take the attendance of the students manually by circulating a paper for them to register their names or calling the names. To date, there are various types of attendance systems that are applying different technologies such as biometrics, tokens and sensors such as RFID. The latest is by applying near-field communication (NFC), a sensor within the smartphone has been used as a mean for recording attendances. The aim of this paper is to list out the possible security attacks against NFC (Near Field Communication) enabled systems by focusing on a student-based attendance system. A brief overview over NFC technology and discussion on various security attacks against NFC in different media is presented. Overall, an attendance system is compromised mainly by tag swapping, tag cloning and manipulation of data occurring on the NFC device and operational server.
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Chew, C.B., Wei, K.C., Sheng, T.W., Mahinderjit-Singh, M., Malim, N.H.A.H., Husin, M.H. (2015). Security Challenges and Mitigations of NFC-Enabled Attendance System. In: Tan, Y., Shi, Y., Buarque, F., Gelbukh, A., Das, S., Engelbrecht, A. (eds) Advances in Swarm and Computational Intelligence. ICSI 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9141. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-20472-7_18
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