Thursday, January 7, 2010

Hack Pinpoints Victim's Physical Location

Samy might know where you live: Samy Kamkar, the hacker who spread the massive MySpace worm in 2005, has published a proof-of-concept attack that identifies a victim's geographic location via his home router.
Kamkar says it all started when he found a cross-site scripting (XSS) bug in a Verizon FiOS wireless router, which allowed him to grab the browser's MAC address and then map it to the GPS coordinates via Google Location Services. The attack works on any browser and doesn't rely on browser-based geolocation features.

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