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Title: Web Attack Pinpoints Where You Live
Post by: HCK on August 03, 2010, 03:00:25 pm
Web Attack Pinpoints Where You Live
      


In an interesting presentation at the Black Hat security conference, Samy Kamkar presented a web attack that can locate you within 30 feet. Precisely. Going to a web site with the appropriate JavaScript and Ajax code, you won’t see anything, but the web site will recover your router’s MAC address (a unique address given to [...]
      

http://blog.intego.com/2010/08/03/web-attack-pinpoints-where-you-live/