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#AirTags key to discovery of #Houston's #plastic #recycling deception
Curious as to where the plastic was going, she bought a set of AirTags, and included them in various bags of her plastic recycling. Of the bags she tracked, nearly all of them went to a company called Wright #Waste Management, located in nearby Harris County.
The company is not approved to store plastic waste, and has failed three fire inspections.
#news #crime #fraud #Problem #politics #usa #technology #airtag
#Mail #Theft Suspect Apprehended Using #AirTag
Source: https://www.sbsheriff.org/mail-theft-suspect-apprehended-using-airtag/
When they arrived, deputies learned that the victim had items stolen from her post office box recently, so she mailed herself a package that included an AirTag locator device. Her mail was again stolen on Monday morning, including the package with the AirTag that she was able to track. It is important to note that the victim did not attempt to contact the suspects on her own.
#LAPD assistant chief put on leave for alleged #stalking
Labrada, one of three assistant chiefs who report to Moore, was the subject of an Ontario #police report that alleged he used an Apple #AirTag to track the movements of an LAPD police officer he was romantically involved with, according to law enforcement sources, who requested anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the ongoing #investigation.
#news #la #California #usa #1312 #surveillance #tracking #stalk #crime #technology #problem
#ThisWeekinSecurity: #Oracle #Opera, #Passkeys, and #AirTag #RFC
There’s a problem with Opera. No, not that kind of opera. The Oracle kind. Oracle OPERA is a Property Management Solution (PMS) that is in use in a bunch of big-name hotels around the world. The PMS is the system that handles reservations and check-ins, talks to the phone system to put room extensions in the proper state, and generally runs the back-end of the property. It’s old code, and handles a bunch of tasks. And researchers at Assetnote found a serious vulnerability. CVE-2023-21932 is an arbitrary file upload issue, and rates at least a 7.2 CVSS.
https://hackaday.com/2023/05/05/this-week-in-security-oracle-opera-passkeys-and-airtag-rfc/
In Absprache mit den Behörden erklärte die #Lufthansa, AirTags & Co. dürfen, wie der BR schreibt, nun doch ins Gepäck. Batterie und Sendeleistung seien so minimal, dass von ihnen keinerlei Gefahr für die Sicherheit an Bord ausgehe #AirTag
Photographer Recovers $7,000 in Equipment Using Apple AirTags | PetaPixel
A photographer was able to recover about $7,000 in equipment stolen from his car in a hotel parking lot thanks to a set of Apple AirTags he had attached to some of the items.
#technology #tech #Apple #security #tagging #AirTag
https://petapixel.com/2022/05/09/photographer-recovers-7000-in-equipment-using-apple-airtags/
● NEWS ● #PCWorld #ProprietarySoftware ☞ I used #Apple ’s #AirTag to track my wife and kids. Here’s what I learned https://www.pcworld.com/article/608037/i-used-apples-airtag-to-track-my-wife-and-kids-heres-what-i-learned.html
Chipolo’s Find My-Enabled ‘CARD Spot’ is Ideal for Keeping Tabs on a Wallet, but Needs to be Replaced Every 2 Years
The CARD Spot isn’t much to look at because it’s a simple credit card-sized black plastic insert that’s meant to fit inside a wallet. It’s about 3x the thickness of a credit card, but may fit into many wallets better than a much thicker AirTag. Apart from that, it will work basically identically to an AirTag as far as connecting to the Find My network goes.
The downside is the battery is not replaceable, and will last about two years. So the device would cost about US$35 to buy, and with the discounted replacement program (outside of the USA too?), that would add about US$17.50 every two years.
See https://www.macrumors.com/review/chipolo-card-spot/
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● NEWS ● #BruceSchneier #Privacy #Surveillance ☞ Bypassing Apple’s #AirTag Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2022/02/bypassing-apples-airtag-security.html
Find You: Building a stealth AirTag clone – Because AirTags can warn a Thief if they steal your Item?
The linked article discusses each anti-stalking feature and how it can be bypassed in theory. Fabian then goes on to describe how he implemented those ideas to build a stealth AirTag and successfully tracked an iPhone user (with their consent of course) for over 5 days without triggering a tracking notification.
The goal of this blog post is to raise awareness of these issues, to hopefully also guide future changes. In particular, Apple needs to incorporate non-genuine AirTags into their threat model, thus implementing security and anti-stalking features into the Find My protocol and ecosystem instead of in the AirTag itself, which can run modified firmware or not be an AirTag at all (Apple devices currently have no way to distinguish genuine AirTags from clones via Bluetooth).
AirTags have certainly posed a dilemma between owners abusing the use of their own AirTags, but also with warning a thief if they have deliberately stolen an item you are tracking. I do have my AirTags set to alert me if I’m parted from them when away from home, but I must say I don’t normally hear the alert tone, and only realise I have left the item behind a little later when I actually look at the visual notifications. Of course, anyone wanting to track someone without their knowledge could use Samsung or Tile tags, or one of the miniature GPS transmitters. But nevertheless, this is still an interesting article.
See https://positive.security/blog/find-you
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● NEWS ● #AppleInsider #Privacy #Surveillance ☞ #AirTag clone developed by researchers works around Apple's anti-stalking measures https://forums.appleinsider.com/discussion/226328
