Collaborate Disseminate
I have installed a VPN on my phone from a reputable VPN provider (paid VPN service, publicly rated as top 10 globally),
Can my phone location (longitude & latitude) still be traced by third-party apps, or will instead the VPN server lo… Continue reading Will VPN on a mobile device hide location?
Apple is talking up the efforts it makes to police the iOS App Store, revealing that during 2020 it rejected more than 215,000 iPhone apps for violating its privacy policies.
On its website, Apple detailed an array of statistics of how it has protec… Continue reading Apple rejected 215,000 iOS apps due to privacy concerns last year
Recently while researching, I have encountered many companies that advertise ip-to-identity tracking solutions that could be used for advanced marketing. Obviously, I was very skeptical as such identification would require data from many s… Continue reading How does ip tracker map ip to identity [closed]
In the process of an investigation, I have to be able to prove that
an E-mail account of bob was used by alice to proceed to an
attack. And by the way alice presumably stole the bob password.
With many E-mail clients I am able to conduct s… Continue reading Attribution of origin of an E-mail attack from a Microsoft MX [closed]
The person behind the Bitcoin Fog was identified and arrested. Bitcoin Fog was an anonymization service: for a fee, it mixed a bunch of people’s bitcoins up so that it was hard to figure out where any individual coins came from. It ran for ten years.
Identifying the person behind Bitcoin Fog serves as an illustrative example of how hard it is to be anonymous online in the face of a competent police investigation:
Most remarkable, however, is the IRS’s account of tracking down Sterlingov using the very same sort of blockchain analysis that his own service was meant to defeat. The complaint outlines how Sterlingov allegedly paid for the server hosting of Bitcoin Fog at one point in 2011 using the now-defunct digital currency Liberty Reserve. It goes on to show the blockchain evidence that identifies Sterlingov’s purchase of that Liberty Reserve currency with bitcoins: He first exchanged euros for the bitcoins on the early cryptocurrency exchange Mt. Gox, then moved those bitcoins through several subsequent addresses, and finally traded them on another currency exchange for the Liberty Reserve funds he’d use to set up Bitcoin Fog’s domain…
Latest episode – listen now! Continue reading S3 Ep29: Anti-tracking, rowhammer problems and IoT vulns [Podcast]
What’s in a window name? Turns out that it could be a sneaky tracking code, so Firefox has put a stop to that. Continue reading Firefox 88 patches bugs and kills off a sneaky JavaScript tracking trick
The new Fitbit Luxe isn’t a revolutionary device as far as fitness trackers go, but it does add some extra style and elegance to the usual wearable formula: it has a stainless steel casing, and is the first Fitbit tracker with a color screen.Continue R… Continue reading Fitbit Luxe adds a touch of style to the basic fitness tracker
Many Facebook users think they only have to worry about the data that they personally share about themselves on Facebook, by posting messages on the site, connecting with their friends, and liking posts.
But the truth is that Facebook knows much mor… Continue reading A helpful reminder about just how much Facebook stalks you on the internet
A friend of mine has recently been a victim of a fake shop. She ordered an article, paid with PayPal but later noticed the shop was fake. So she raised an issue by PayPal buyers protection, but the case was closed in favor of the seller, b… Continue reading Cheating parcel tracking [closed]