Collaborate Disseminate
By Owais Sultan
The world is more connected than ever before, and the rise of the smart home is just one…
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A journalist is threatened with prosecution after choosing to “View Source” on a public webpage, Amazon Ring owners might be in line for a hefty fine if their neighbours complain, and is the school lunch queue a good place for facial recognition?
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If you own an Amazon device (Ring, Echo, Dot, Plus, Show, Spot, Studio, Input or Flex) then starting this week, you may be sharing at least some attributes of your device with other Amazon device users. To create the kind of ubiquitous mesh network th… Continue reading Amazon Sidewalk, Apple AirTag and Involuntary Sharing
WiFi just isn’t very good at going through buildings. It’s fine for the main living areas of an average home, but once we venture towards the periphery of our domains it starts to become less reliable. For connected devices outside the core of a home, this presents a problem, and …read more
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Amazon alerted users of its Alexa-powered devices that it will soon enable a potentially dangerous new service called Sidewalk. You may want to disable it.
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Should possessing malware be illegal in itself? How did a Russian cryptocurrency exchange millionaire lose his fortune? And what on earth are Amazon Ring doorbell cams up to now?
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-wi… Continue reading Smashing Security #163: Russian heists and Ring wrongs
It’s not only external hackers who pose a threat to the customer data that your company stores.
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We discuss how Microsoft Word helped trap a multi-million dollar fraudster, how Amazon Ring may be recording more than you’re comfortable with, and how teens are flocking to TikTok (and why that might be a problem).
All this and much more is cove… Continue reading Smashing Security #160: SNAFUs! MS Word, Amazon Ring, and TikTok
For a while now a series of stories have been circulating about Amazon’s Ring doorbell, an Internet-connected camera and entry system that lets users monitor and even interact with visitors and delivery people at their doors. The adverts feature improbable encounters with would-be crooks foiled by the IoT-equipped homeowner, but …read more
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Amazon is soon going to get into smart light bulbs with a new Ring-branded smart light bulb. The details are scarce, though.
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