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This laser attack can also be used to unlock various vehicles (e.g., Tesla and Ford). Recently, researchers from the University of Electro-Communications based in Japan and the University of Michigan based in the United States discovered that certain tools such as laser beams and flashlights can be used to control certain voice-controlled digital assistants. This […]
Digital assistants were created to ease our lives as they make most of our tasks hands-free. But sooner or later, hackers and security researchers have been able to compromise them (of course, hands-free!) if the tech companies themselves weren’t doing enough harm to people’s privacy. The latest addition to this is “Light Commands,” as its […]
Amazon Alexa, the virtual assistant that lives in Echo devices, has reached many homes in different parts of the world. But many Chinese schools-going teens are working at Foxconn factories overnight to manufacture the Echo devices and achieve that goal. An investigation (via The Guardian) done by China Labor Watch (CLW) accuses Foxconn of conducting […]
Cardiac arrest is one of the major causes of natural deaths in the US and almost 400,000 suffer one cardiac arrest every year in the country. Death rates from cardiac arrest can be minimized by timely detection and immediate resuscitation. Keeping this mind, a team of researchers from the University of Washington has developed a […]
The Alexa team at Amazon, which reviews users’ Alexa commands, has access to location data of customers and they can easily find a user’s home address if they want to. The revelation was made in a Bloomberg report where five unnamed employees familiar with the program confirmed the same to the publication. The Alexa team in […]
People usually ask their Amazon Echo devices, ‘Alexa, is someone else listening to us?’ Well as it turns out, the answer is yes. Amazon Alexa, the digital home assistant, gets smarter every day using your voice recording. It happens with the help of an Artificial Neural Network (ANN), human workers, and a non-disclosure agreement. Amazon […]
As part of the yearly test, research firm Loup Ventures, recently conducted a smart speaker IQ test, whose winner comes out to be the Google Assistant. According to the research, Google Assistant stands first with 88 percent correct answers, following which Apple’s Siri is at the second spot with 75 percent correct answers, Amazon Alexa […]
A large number of information security experts are betting on a future with a great presence of voice assistants fed by artificial intelligence. Digital beings that would help us answer questions and make our lives easier. Although there is still a long way to go before this, in the Google Assistant and Amazon’s Alexa we can see […]
Amazon’s Alexa can now be used on any Android phone. Whilst you still need to install the Alexa app to start a command, it is now possible to set Alexa as a default assistant, this has come about since Amazon has launched an update to its Alexa app for Android phones which helps users to […]
Microsoft first announced its plans to integrate Cortana and Alexa last year. At Build 2018, the company announced more updates and showed Cortana running on Alexa and vice versa. But, what about Google Assistant? Almost every Android phone comes loaded with Google’s AI-powered assistant but what if you prefer other smart assistants? If you’re using […]
A team of security researchers at Checkmarx have created a “skill” that can turn Amazon’s virtual assistant Alexa into an eavesdropping device. It abuses the built-in request capabilities of the device to record your conversation indefinitely and send the transcripts to any third party website or Amazon. Alexa has been designed to detect sound at all times to […]
Take back your privacy. Lose yourself in the haystack. Your ISP is most likely tracking your browsing habits and selling them to marketing agencies (albeit anonymised). Or worse, making your browsing history available to law enforcement at the hint of a Subpoena. Needl will generate random Internet traffic in an attempt to conceal your legitimate […]
What is Amazon Echo? Amazon Echo is a popular hands-free smart speaker that you can control using your voice. As it’s “smart,” it can do a variety of tasks apart from the regular chore of playing music. Just like me, you can use it to make calls, send and receive messages, get information from the […]
Short Bytes: To solve the year-old Victor Collins murder mystery, the Arkansas police is trying to obtain an Amazon Echo’s recorded audio data stored on the cloud servers maintained by Amazon. The Echo was present at the house where the crime was committed. You never know what your always-on internet-connected Amazon Echo is capable of […]
The official domains of Alexa internet search have been hacked and defaced by Anonymous Palestine affiliated group KDMS Team. KDMS hackers left a deface page along with a message on two Alexa Internet, Inc domains with a Palestinian flag and text against Israel. The deface message was expressed in following words: Hello World We Are […]