Bug in Apple s Find My Feature Could ve Exposed Users Location Histories
Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apple s crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to the location history of the past seven days, thereby by deanonymizing users.
The findings are a consequence of an exhaustive review undertaken by the Open Wireless Link (OWL) project, a team of researchers from the Secure Mobile Networking Lab at the Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany, who have historically taken apart Apple s wireless ecosystem with the goal of identifying security and privacy issues.
Researchers reverse-engineer Find My, detail potential privacy & security issues
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Security Researchers Develop Framework for Tracking Bluetooth Devices Using Find My
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