Category Archives: Fitbit

Meltdown, Fitness Tracker, and a Secret Military Base – Hack Naked News #159

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This week, Paul reports on vulnerable industrial controls directly connected to Internet, Heat Map released by Fitness Tracker reveals location of secret military bases, and a Linux monitoring tool detects Meltdown attacks! Jason Wood joins us for the … Continue reading Meltdown, Fitness Tracker, and a Secret Military Base – Hack Naked News #159→

Opt-Out Fitness Data Sharing Leads to Massive Military Locations Leak

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People who exercise with fitness trackers have a digital record of their workouts. They do it for a wide range of reasons, from gathering serious medical data to simply satisfying curiosity. When fitness data includes GPS coordinates, it raises personal privacy concerns. But even with individual data removed, such data was still informative enough to spill the beans on secretive facilities around the world.

Strava is a fitness tracking service that gathers data from several different brands of fitness tracker — think Fitbit. It gives athletes a social media experience built around their fitness data: track progress against personal goals …read more

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34C3: Fitbit Sniffing and Firmware Hacking

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If you walked into a gym and asked to sniff exercise equipment you would get some mighty strange looks. If you tell hackers you’ve sniffed a Fitbit, you might be asked to give a presentation. [Jiska] and [DanielAW] were not only able to sniff Bluetooth data from a run-of-the-mill Fitbit fitness tracker, they were also able to connect to the hardware with data lines using test points etched right on the board. Their Fitbit sniffing talk at 34C3 can be seen after the break. We appreciate their warning that opening a Fitbit will undoubtedly void your warranty since Fitbits don’t …read more

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