Unacast, an analytics company using location data from a variety of apps, debuts a Social Distancing Scoreboard to grade how US citizens are adapting by region
or not. Data from tens of millions of smartphones grades counties & states by how much people are staying put. Washington, DC gets an A Wyoming gets an F See your county https://www.washingtonpost.com...
Researchers develop tool that can predict where Twitter users live with 92.5% accuracy using GPS data from geotagged tweets posted prior to April 2015
Issie Lapowsky / Wired : Tweets: @issielapowsky , @issielapowsky , @wired , and @alexwhitcomb Tweets: Issie Lapowsky / @issielapowsky : Twitter changed its policy in 2015 but all the GPS data from be...
Researchers find 24 popular iOS apps that sent sensitive user data like GPS, Bluetooth LE Beacon, and Wi-Fi network identifiers to data monetization firms
A group of security researchers say dozens of popular iPhone apps are quietly sharing the location data of “tens of millions of mobile devices” …
Hacker says he stole data from ZooPark hacking group, some say an Iran-linked APT, which ran a hacking campaign targeting Android devices across the Middle East
Joseph Cox / Motherboard : Tweets: @chrisrohlf , @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @lorenzofb , and @josephfcox Tweets: Chris Rohlf / @chrisrohlf : There was a time when you could just look at exploit code...
Hacker claims he stole data from ZooPark hacking group, some say an Iran-linked APT, which ran a hacking campaign towards Android devices across the Middle East
Earlier this month, Kaspersky published research on the so-called ZooPark group, which ran a hacking campaign towards Android devices across the Middle East. Tweets: @josephfcox , @josephfcox , @loren...
GPS, used both for tracking location and tracking time, by global finance, telco, and transport networks, is vulnerable to jamming and spoofing
Tim Fernholz / Quartz :