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University group reveals geo-inference attack threat that uses browser cache to reveal user location
"The researchers report that by using a similar approach, hackers can use information left by sites such as Craigslist, Google Maps, etc. to zero in on city, neighborhood, or even street address. They report also that they tested all of the most popular browsers and found them all vulnerable to the same type of attack and claim that 62 percent of the Alexa top 100 websites in the US, Japan, Australia, the UK and Singapore leak location data."
"The researchers report that by using a similar approach, hackers can use information left by sites such as Craigslist, Google Maps, etc. to zero in on city, neighborhood, or even street address. They report also that they tested all of the most popular browsers and found them all vulnerable to the same type of attack and claim that 62 percent of the Alexa top 100 websites in the US, Japan, Australia, the UK and Singapore leak location data."
