Collaborate Disseminate
How much personal information can our phone apps gather through location tracking? To answer this question, two researchers – Mirco Musolesi (University of Bologna, Italy) and Benjamin Baron (University College London, UK) – carried out a f… Continue reading Users largely unaware of the privacy implications of location tracking
For public health officials, contact tracing remains critical to managing the spread of the coronavirus — particularly as it appears that variants of the virus could be more transmissible. The need for widespread contact tracing at the start of t… Continue reading Researchers propose more secure and private mobile contact tracing
Interesting research on persistent web tracking using favicons. (For those who don’t know, favicons are those tiny icons that appear in browser tabs next to the page name.)
Abstract: The privacy threats of online tracking have garnered considerable attention in recent years from researchers and practitioners alike. This has resulted in users becoming more privacy-cautious and browser vendors gradually adopting countermeasures to mitigate certain forms of cookie-based and cookie-less tracking. Nonetheless, the complexity and feature-rich nature of modern browsers often lead to the deployment of seemingly innocuous functionality that can be readily abused by adversaries. In this paper we introduce a novel tracking mechanism that misuses a simple yet ubiquitous browser feature: …
A data privacy tool has been developed to help ensure key datasets – such as those tracking COVID-19 – can be publicly shared with an extra layer of security for sensitive personal information. Developed as a collaboration between CSIRO’s Data61, the d… Continue reading Researchers develop tool that ensures secure sensitive data sharing
If you want to listen to satellites, you have to be able to track them as they pass over the sky. When I first started tracking amateur satellites, computing the satellite’s location in the sky was a part of the challenge. Nowadays, that’s trivial. What’s left over are all the …read more
Continue reading Tracking Satellites: The Nitty Gritty Details
In episode 151 for December 14th 2020: What you need to know about the stolen FireEye “Red Team” tools and the FUD going on in the media about the attack, Foxconn gets hit with a ransomware attack plus details on how ransomware attacks are evolving, an… Continue reading FireEye Hacked, Foxconn Ransomware Attack, Apple’s New Privacy Features
The smartphone is perhaps the signature device of our modern lives. For most of the population it is never more than an arm’s length away, it’s on your person more than any other device in your life. Smartphones are packed with all sorts of radios and ways to communicate wireless. …read more
The largest collection of public internet censorship data ever compiled shows that even citizens of what are considered the world’s freest countries aren’t safe from internet censorship. A team from the University of Michigan used its own C… Continue reading Even the world’s freest countries aren’t safe from internet censorship
So, I was just at home, minding my business. I was on some sites that are not allowed at school, and my email was logged in.
I was using safari with the google site.
Do they know what I am doing now? They openly say they monitor everything… Continue reading Can my school monitor what I do on my personal device?
A new prototype Companion Collar smart collar is being developed by the CSIRO’s digital specialist arm, Data61, and agtech company Ceres Tag that will allow pet owners to track their animal across both long and short distances.Continue ReadingCategory:… Continue reading Companion Collar combines Bluetooth and GPS to track pets near and far