Privacy Implications of Tracking Wireless Access Points

Brian Krebs reports on research into geolocating routers: Apple and the satellite-based broadband service Starlink each recently took steps to address new research into the potential security and privacy implications of how their services geolocate devices. Researchers from the University of...

CVE-2023-42846

This issue was addressed by removing the vulnerable code. This issue is fixed in watchOS 10.1, iOS 16.7.2 and iPadOS 16.7.2, tvOS 17.1, iOS 17.1 and iPadOS 17.1. A device may be passively tracked by its Wi-Fi MAC address...

City fined for tracking its citizens via their phones

The Dutch information watchdog—the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens AP—has fined the city of Enschede for € 600,000 for tracking its citizens movements without permission. It is the first time that a Dutch government body has been fined by the AP. The investigation was set in motion after it received ...

CVE-2019-8854

CVE-2019-8854 affects Apple devices by addressing a user privacy issue where watchOS, iOS, macOS, and tvOS could be passively tracked via the Wi‑Fi MAC address. The root cause was the broadcast MAC address being exposed; Apple mitigated this by removing the broadcast MAC address. Patches are deli...

DigiTrack - Attacks For $5 Or Less Using Arduino

In 30 seconds, this attack can learn which networks a MacOS computer has connected to before, and plant a script that tracks the current IP address and Wi-Fi network every 60 seconds. Now includes: Hardtracker -Digispark VPN buster to send the IP address and BSSID/SSID of nearby Wi-Fi networks on...