Week 05

Nathan Ruser, an Australian university student, tweeted that a fitness application revealed the locations of military sites in Syria and other places. He was not expecting much response to his tweet. However, this grabbed a high amount of attention. The news alarmed security experts who said hostile entities could gain valuable intelligence from the Strave app’s global “heat map”. This includes locations of secret bases and the movements of military personnel.

Ruser looked over Syria on Strava’s map, which is based on location data from millions of users, including military personnel, who share their exercise activity. He stated that the area “lit up with those U.S. bases.”

Link to article here

This is a pretty interesting article because it effects almost anyone. The hacker who is Samy Kamkar known for the Myspace hack back in the early 2000s is now a gray hat hacker. This means that he doesn’t do it for good or bad. He tries to exploit things and then shows people the vulnerabilities so they are able to check into it and fix the it. This is interesting one that explains how easy it is to break into an eltric car, start it and start driving.

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2018/02/23/583682220/this-gray-hat-hacker-breaks-into-your-car-to-prove-a-point