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Polar’s fitness app made it dangerously easy to track soldiers and secret agents worldwide

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by on July 9, 2018 at 9:42 am
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web


Over the weekend, media outlets De Correspondent and Bellingcat reported that they were able to uncover the names of more than 6,400 military and intelligence agency personnel in many countries – simply by looking up their fitness activities in Polar’s insecure app. To be clear, the reporters didn’t have to breach any networks: they simply accessed the company’s Flow app, which is used by owners of Polar fitness trackers to log their workouts – including the routes they take during their runs and jogs. Essentially, they simply looked up the Explore map in the app to find people working out…

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Timehop’s database breached compromising data of 21 million users

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by on July 9, 2018 at 5:42 am
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Timehop, an app that resurfaces your old photos and posts by connecting to your social media profiles, revealed that its cloud computing environment was hacked and the data of 21 million users was stolen on July 4. The stolen data comprised mostly of user names and email addresses. Of the 21 million compromised user data, the phone numbers linked to 4.7 million accounts were also stolen. “Tokens” provided by social media profiles to Timehop for gaining access to posts and images were also taken. With the “access tokens,” hackers could view some of the users’ social media posts without their permission.…

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Watch Elon Musk’s rescue submarine for the Thai soccer boys’ team in testing

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by on July 9, 2018 at 5:00 am
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The world has been watching closely as a mission to rescue a soccer team of young boys in Thailand from a flooded cave is underway. Last week, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk offered his support by promising to have a “kid-size submarine” built – and he came through with the help of engineers in his employ. The idea is to turn a “liquid oxygen transfer tube” from a SpaceX Falcon rocket into a submarine that would be light enough to navigate through narrow gaps in the complex cave system, and be carried by two divers. The submarine can fit…

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