Friday, March 9, 2012
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Other cellphones can track you without your knowledge
Location Leaks on the GSM Air Interface: http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~foo/research/docs/fookune_ndss_gsm.pdf
Monday, March 5, 2012
Study: Facebook profile beats IQ test in predicting job performance
Well, people DO data mine Facebook and they think they can even predict your I.Q.... well better post something intelligent:
http://www.contracostatimes.com/business/ci_20091488
Sunday, March 4, 2012
Linking Facebook and Match.com
This is a great example of cross-site inference. Mostly websites only think about their own privacy but the linking of innocuous data leaks might reveal powerful information!
Current Practices in Data Mining by Companies
While this post is not about online data and cybercasing, it gives you an example what is currenlty already done by companies:
US bars friends over Twitter joke
As this is a highly political post, you might ask yourself, why is this on a cybercasing blog?
The reason for this is that I don't interpret the article as an example of the stupidity of Government but as a really nice example of "people don't think about the actual outreach of their post when they post". Again: Think before you post!
The reason for this is that I don't interpret the article as an example of the stupidity of Government but as a really nice example of "people don't think about the actual outreach of their post when they post". Again: Think before you post!
Online privacy could keep you and your home safe from robberies
http://
Einstein said: "It's hard to predict, especially the future." Therefore, as researchers we are usually happy when we predicted somehow right. I am not in this case.
Einstein said: "It's hard to predict, especially the future." Therefore, as researchers we are usually happy when we predicted somehow right. I am not in this case.
How advanced behaviour modelling is helping to identify online fraud
Well, it's easy to imagine how this can be abused:
http://www.physorg.com
http://www.physorg.com
How to easily delete your online accounts
Finally, somebody promises to do something about legacy accounts:
Smartphone Stalking
Here are some instructions on how to turn off GPS on smartphones (not that it solves the problem, really):
http://myhighplains.com/fulltext?nxd_id=194647
Cybercasing, original definition
What's this BLOG about?
Here is the original research paper we wrote:
http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/cgi-bin/pubs/publication.pl?ID=002932
New Blog, yay!
Hi all,
This blog was originally started as a Facebook group. However, more and more people told me that a blog is a much better way of publishing about the topic I am publishing. So the first couple of entries in the blog will be copies of the original entries in the cybercasing Facebook group.
So what is cybercasing after all?
Cybercasing is: "Using online (location-based) data and services to mount real-world attacks that weren't otherwise possible".
The purpose of this blog is to inform people of the risks so that they can prevent being cybercased.
Have scary fun...
Gerald
This blog was originally started as a Facebook group. However, more and more people told me that a blog is a much better way of publishing about the topic I am publishing. So the first couple of entries in the blog will be copies of the original entries in the cybercasing Facebook group.
So what is cybercasing after all?
Cybercasing is: "Using online (location-based) data and services to mount real-world attacks that weren't otherwise possible".
The purpose of this blog is to inform people of the risks so that they can prevent being cybercased.
Have scary fun...
Gerald
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