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Find My Hacker? How Apple’s Network Became a Tracking Tool

March 11, 2025, 9:21 p.m.

A research team headed by CS faculty Qiang Zeng and Lannan Luo has discovered a critical vulnerability in Apple’s Find My network. This attack, called nRootTag, allows an attacker ...

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Research Highlights

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  Find My Hacker? How Apple’s Network Became a Tracking Tool

  A research team headed by CS faculty Qiang Zeng and Lannan Luo has discovered a critical vulnerability in Apple’s Find My network. This attack, called nRootTag, allows an attacker to turn any Bluetooth device into an AirTag-like tracker, leveraging Apple’s 1.5-billion-device network at no cost.

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  Using AI to uncover Human Smuggling Networks

  Professor Carlotta Domeniconi in the Department of Computer Science at George Mason University is using artificial intelligence (AI) to combat human smuggling networks. She is the principal investigator (PI) on a groundbreaking project aimed at understanding and modeling human smuggling networks.  

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  GMU Robotics Faculty and Students Shine at IROS'24

  GMU robotics faculty, postdoc, and students attend the 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, one of the flagship robotics conferences, in Abu Dhabi, UAE. Computer Science faculty Gregory J. Stein and Xuesu Xiao, along with Electrical and Computer Engineering faculty Xuan Wang, present nine papers at the conference and showcase the recent research progress made by Mason roboticists.

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  Bo Han, Songqing Chen, Craig Yu, and Parth Pathak win an NSF CCRI Award

  Mason CS Professors Bo Han (PI), Songqing Chen (co-PI), Craig Yu (co-PI), and Parth Pathak (co-PI) won an NSF CCRI award for their proposal titled, "CoMIC: A Collaborative Mobile Immersive Computing Research Infrastructure for Multi-user XR."