Learning objectives:
Students learn Android mobile GPS location working principals and privacy issues.
Students learn basic GPS location implementation and its security.
GPS-location services become part of daily life. However, the risks to mobile device users should not be underestimated. Attackers can use location data to look into victims’ location and activities including their interests, lifestyle and issue more serious phishing attacks later against the tracked victims with the collected data. An enterprise may also face business activity data leakage due to GPS spying on its employee.
Prevention:
The simplest way to protect your location privacy is to turn off the option of “allow location services”.
Use VPN(Virtual Private Network), Anti-Tracking Software to monitor and avoid location tracking.
Be careful with any plug-in, embedded Javascript in your app, turn off Your Cookies to militate the location privacy security vulnerability
In this lab, we will use a malicious Android application to demonstrate and simulate an SMS attack on Android mobile device. The malicious Android application can catch the location information from GPS satellite or Network service by receiving a short message. This lab utilizes a malicious Android application that we developed to give users a brief demonstration on how SMS attack works. It is necessary to know how attacks work in order to defend the attacks.
Ref Link: https://sites.google.com/site/smsdproject/home/data-protection/gps-location-privacy/hands-on-lab-practice