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Google Maps: online interventions with offline ramifications

February 7, 2020 admin art vs tech, businesses, cars, Crowdsourcing, google, Google Maps, GPS, gps location, location, map maker, maps, privacy, Reviews, traffic apps, traffic sensors, user generated content

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2020 19:24:50 +0000

We look at some of the ways people have gamed online mapping systems over the years.

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Privacy

Tags: art vs tech businesses cars crowdsourcing Google google maps gps gps location location map maker maps reviews traffic apps traffic sensors user generated content

MalwareBytes Security

Smart cities, difficult choices: privacy and security on the grid

June 18, 2019 admin advertising, maps, privacy, Smart Cities, smart city, Toronto, tracking, waterfront, wifi

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2019 17:17:08 +0000

We take a look at Google’s Sidewalk Labs woes with a planned smart city build in Toronto, and explore some of the general concerns about making our living spaces 24/7 Internet wonderlands.

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Privacy

Tags: advertising maps smart cities smart city toronto tracking waterfront wifi

Independent MotherBoard Security

Following a Google Map to Nowhere Is Easy. Getting Out Is Hard

November 1, 2017 admin anxiety, backcountry, Connected, connectivity, Google Maps, GPS, hiking, maps, outdoors week 2017

Credit to Author: Michael Byrne| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2017 16:00:00 +0000

The connected map, the GPS dot, is a different sense of safety than the static map.

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I Broke My Phone Biking 180 Miles Alone in Europe

October 23, 2017 admin anxiety, connectivity, Google Maps, GPS, iPhone, location, maps, outdoors week 2017, Read, road trip, smartphones, Travel

Credit to Author: Lisa Cumming| Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 13:00:00 +0000

Without being able to reliably use GPS, I felt lost.

Independent MotherBoard Security

When Is It Time to Disobey GPS Directions?

September 22, 2017 admin Google Maps, GPS, iPhone, maps, The Interruption

Credit to Author: Becky Ferreira| Date: Fri, 22 Sep 2017 17:20:00 +0000

“She had ignored her phone’s instructions.”

Microsoft Security

Gamarue, Nemucod, and JavaScript

January 23, 2017 admin Code obfuscation, Crowti, fareit, Gamarue, JavaScript, maps, Nemucod, ransomware, spam, Tescrypt, Windows Defender, Windows Defender for Windows 10

JavaScript is now being used largely to download malware because it’s easy to obfuscate the code and it has a small size. Most recently, one of the most predominant JavaScript malware that has been spreading other malware is Nemucod. This JavaScript trojan downloads additional malware (such as Win32/Tescrypt and Win32/Crowti – two pervasive ransomware trojans…

Microsoft Security

Large Kovter digitally-signed malvertising campaign and MSRT cleanup release

January 23, 2017 admin Kovter, Locky, Macro-based malware, Malvertising campaign, maps, MSRT, ransomware, Trojan, Windows Defender, Windows Defender for Windows 10

Kovter is a malware family that is well known for being tricky to detect and remove because of its file-less design after infection. Users from United States are nearly exclusively being targeted, and infected PCs are used to perform click-fraud and install additional malware on your machine. Starting April 21, 2016, we observed a large…

Microsoft Security

MSRT April release features Bedep detection

January 23, 2017 admin Angler Exploit Kit, Axpergle, backdoor, Bedep, Bedep geodistribution, Dofoil, Macro-based malware, maps, Microsoft Active Protection Service, Microsoft Edge, Microsoft Edge SmartScreen protection, MSRT, smartscreen, Trojan, Ursnif, Win32/Dofoil, Win32/Fareit, Windows Defender, Windows Defender blogs for home users and small businesses, Zemot

As part of our ongoing effort to provide better malware protection, the Microsoft Malicious Software Removal Tool (MSRT) release this April will include detections for: Win32/Bedep – Trojan family Win32/Upatre – Trojan family Ransom:MSIL/Samas – Ransomware family In this blog, we’ll focus on the Bedep family of trojans. The bothersome Bedep Win32/Bedep was first…

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