Tag: Fitness
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Popular Fitness Apps Leak Location Data Even When Users Set Privacy Zones
Unsophisticated attackers can pinpoint where a person lives by lifting metadata from Strava and other apps, even if they’re using a feature …
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Garmin Online Services Reportedly Hit With Ransomware Attack
If you head to Garmin.com, at least at the time of this writing, you’ll see a message that mentions an “outage,” but that’s …
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Canada’s Fitness Depot Alerts Customers to Data Breach
Fitness Depot, the largest retailer of specialty exercise equipment in Canada, has alerted customers to a data breach affecting its …
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Researchers to study if startup’s wrist-worn wearable can detect early COVID-19 respiratory issues
It’s highly unlikely that the current coronavirus crisis will neatly and fully “solved” by any one endeavor or solution, which makes …
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Cyber Fitness Takes More Than a Gym Membership & a Crash Diet
Every year, millions of people make New Year’s resolutions to “get healthy.” Sadly, studies show that less than 25% of them actually stay …
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How to Lock Down Your Health and Fitness Data
Whether you’re a Fitbit user worried about Google’s recent $2.1 billion purchase of the company or just generally privacy conscious, you …
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Facebook’s down-ranking those ‘miracle cure’ health posts we all hate
Facebook has come up with a miracle page-ranking-loss pill that combines the metabolically enhanced powers of its 100% African mango …
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Pentagon Bans GPS Fitness Apps, Says They’re ‘Significant Risk’ To Troops
After concerns were raised earlier this year, the Pentagon has banned military troops and other workers at sensitive sites from using …
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Polar’s fitness app made it dangerously easy to track soldiers and secret agents worldwide
Over the weekend, media outlets De Correspondent and Bellingcat reported that they were able to uncover the names of more than 6,400 …
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Fitness app Polar Flow exposed names and locations of thousands of military, NSA and FBI staff
It’s not all that long since fitness app Strava caused something of a security nightmare by inadvertently revealing the locations of …
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Fitness app Polar even better at revealing secrets than Strava
+Comment Online investigations outfit Bellingcat has found that fitness tracking kit-maker Polar reveals both the identity and daily …
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Fitness app Polar exposed locations of spies and military personnel
A popular fitness app that tracks the activity data on millions of users has inadvertently revealed the locations of personnel working at …
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