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Google disabled Xiaomi’s access to its Assistant and Home and Nest devices after a security breach almost two weeks ago.
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From ransomware ramp up, to voice assistant privacy perils, the Threatpost team breaks down the top news stories from this past year. Continue reading Top Zero Days, Data Breaches and Security Stories of 2019: News Wrap
Researchers say that Amazon and Google need to focus on weeding out malicious skills from the getgo, rather than after they are already live. Continue reading Alexa, Google Home Eavesdropping Hack Not Yet Fixed
Google announced this week that it is adding support for Google Keep, Any.do, AnyList, and Bring to its Assistant.
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Google today announced a feature called “Your News Update” for its Assistant-powered smart speakers and smartphones.
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New data from Canalys claims that Google smart speaker sales plummeted 40 percent year-over-year. What’s happening?
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You’re listening to the Shared Security Podcast, exploring the trust you put in people, apps, and technology…with your host, Tom Eston. In episode 94 for November 11th 2019: Facebook’s Group API data leak and 7,000 pages of leaked Fac… Continue reading Facebook Data Leaks, Smart Speaker Laser Attack, BlueKeep in the Wild
The ability to create stereo pairs with Google Home smart speakers is a great if long overdue addition to the platform.
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A US-Japanese team published a research paper which confirms an interesting and under-estimated possibility – these devices will also accept “signal injection” commands sent to them using pulses of laser light over distances of a hundred metres or more… Continue reading Smartphone and speaker voice assistants can be hacked using lasers
A team of cybersecurity researchers has discovered a clever technique to remotely inject inaudible and invisible commands into voice-controlled devices — all just by shining a laser at the targeted device instead of using spoken words.
Dubbed ‘Light C… Continue reading Hackers Can Silently Control Your Google Home, Alexa, Siri With Laser Light