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The Wi-Fi triangulation function is also a rarity in the hacking world, according to Secureworks. Whiffy Recon can triangulate a PC’s location, thanks to the Google Maps' Geolocation API, which is ...

Cybercriminals behind the Smoke Loader botnet are using a new piece of malware called Whiffy Recon to triangulate the location of infected devices through WiFi scanning and Google's geolocation API.

Remember how the first gen iPhone (and similar non-GPS devices) use Wi-Fi nodes to guesstimate the user’s position? Snow Leopard will do that, too. According to developers working with pre-release ...

Topic says it all. If you use wifi and have three accesspoints or wireless nodes with a known location it should be able to measure signal strength and calculate the position. Even better if you map ...