Abstract
Crowdsourcing is a unique and practical approach to obtain personalized data and content. Its impact is especially significant in providing commentary, reviews and metadata, on a variety of location based services. In this study, we examine reliability of the Waze mapping service, and its vulnerability to a variety of locationbased attacks. Our goals are to understand the severity of the problem, shed light on the general problem of location and device authentication, and explore the efficacy of potential defenses. Our preliminary results already show that a single attacker with limited resources can cause havoc on Waze, producing "virtual" congestion and accidents, automatically re-routing user traffic, and compromising user privacy by tracking users' precise movements via software while staying undetected.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Title of host publication | MobiSys 2016 Companion - Companion Publication of the 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery, Inc |
| Number of pages | 1 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781450344166 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 25 2016 |
| Externally published | Yes |
| Event | 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, MobiSys 2016 - Singapore, Singapore Duration: Jun 25 2016 → Jun 30 2016 |
Other
| Other | 14th Annual International Conference on Mobile Systems, Applications, and Services, MobiSys 2016 |
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| Country/Territory | Singapore |
| City | Singapore |
| Period | 6/25/16 → 6/30/16 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Information Systems
- Software
- Hardware and Architecture
- Computer Networks and Communications