This report describes major security and privacy issues in several leading wearable fitness tracking devices and accompanying mobile applications.
Every Step You Fake: A Comparative Analysis of Fitness Tracker Privacy and Security
Posts Tagged: Security
Snifflab: An environment for testing mobile devices
A look at how our Snifflab test environment works to collect packets and man-in-the-middle HTTPS communications for easy security research.
Half Baked: The Opportunity to Secure Cookie-based Identifiers from Passive Surveillance
We are excited to announce the forthcoming publication of a research paper at the 5th USENIX Workshop for Free and Open Communications on the Internet. The paper explores the security levels of the top 500 websites in each category of the Alexa rankings.
Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium
Andrew Hilts presented Open Effect research at the 2015 Privacy Enhancing Technologies Symposium.
Privacy Commissioner’s Office to fund OE project
I’m excited to announce that Open Effect is among the recipients of The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada’s 2015-16 Contributions Program. The program seeks to fund independent Canadian privacy and security research. Over the next year, we will research the privacy and security of a range of wearable fitness trackers.
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