Wearable Technology – Cyber Security Review

Fitness app Polar exposed locations of spies and military personnel

Posted onJuly 8, 2018July 9, 2018

A popular fitness app that tracks the activity data on millions of users has inadvertently revealed the locations of personnel working at military bases and intelligence services. The app, Polar Flow, built by its eponymous company Polar, a Finnish-based fitness Read More …

DoD Studying Implications of Wearable Devices Giving Too Much Info

Posted onJanuary 30, 2018January 31, 2018

Defense Department officials are studying security issues raised by physical conditioning trackers that also can be used to track service members’ whereabouts, a Pentagon spokesman told reporters today. The concern comes from a “heat map” posted by Strava — the Read More …