University group reveals geo-inference attack threat that uses browser cache to reveal user location

Monday, April 20, 2015 - 08:50 in Mathematics & Economics

A team of researchers at the National University of Singapore has published a paper on their university web site outlining what they describe as geo-inference attacks—where hackers can set up a website and then use cache information in a user's browser to reveal their geographical location.

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