Collaborate Disseminate
In episode 160: An attacker tried to poison a Florida city’s water supply, a popular Android app was hacked to display malicious ads, and how smartphone location data was used to track the US Capitol rioters. ** Links mentioned on the show ** A Hacker … Continue reading Florida Water Supply Hack, Android App Hijack, US Capitol Riot Phone Tracking
Popular chat apps, including LINE, Slack, Twitter DMs and others, can also leak location data and share private info with third-party servers. Continue reading LinkedIn, Instagram Vulnerable to Preview-Link RCE Security Woes
Maps, weather, searches et al. suck up location data in the background, even if Tracking is turned off. Arizona says it’s consumer fraud. Continue reading Google sued by Arizona for tracking users’ locations in spite of settings
The lawsuit, filed against Google by Arizona’s Attorney General, alleges that the tech giant uses “deceptive and unfair conduct” to obtain users’ location data. Continue reading Google Location Tracking Lambasted in Arizona Lawsuit
“Healthy Together” app uses a raft of location data, including GPS, cell tower triangulation and Bluetooth, to pinpoint users and ID coronavirus hotspots. Continue reading Utah Says No to Apple/Google COVID-19 Tracing; Debuts Startup App
Germany’s ditched a homegrown alternative that featured a centralized database of location data, raising privacy concerns. Continue reading Coronavirus tracking tool from Apple and Google embraced by Germany
We continually hear of the need for COVID-19 contact tracing. But what exactly is contact tracing? The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) published guidance on contact tracing during the 2006 Ebola epidemic. In that guide, it explained how tracing… Continue reading COVID-19 Contact Tracing: Your Privacy for Your Health?
Google Maps data could help governments track patients that a newly-diagnosed COVID-19 sufferer has been in contact with. Continue reading Should governments track your location to fight COVID-19?
In episode 98 of our monthly show co-host Scott Wright shows us a demo of Click Armor which is a gamified cybersecurity awareness platform, Tom presents the results of our listener survey, and we have a discussion about the privacy concerns with geofen… Continue reading Click Armor Demo, Podcast Survey Results, Google Geofence Warrants
Real-time, in-trip geolocation data isn’t good for traffic/bike lane planning, a draft of the suit says. What it’s good for is surveillance. Continue reading Uber to file federal suit against Los Angeles over users’ real-time location data