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UPDATE. Vulnerabilities in Amazon's Alexa virtual assistant platform could allow attackers to access users' personal information, like home addresses - simply by persuading them to click on a malicious link. Researchers with Check Point found several web application flaws on Amazon Alexa subdomains, including a cross-site scripting flaw and cross-origin resource sharing misconfiguration.
Pearson, the world's learning company, announced the promotion of Alexa Christon to chief marketing officer reporting to chief corporate affairs officer, Deirdre Latour. Since coming to Pearson a year ago, Alexa has made major strides in developing a global brand strategy and deploying that strategy to enable Pearson's ongoing transformation to the world's online learning company.
Giving users of smart assistants the option to adjust settings for privacy or content delivery, or both, doesn't necessarily increase their trust in the platform, according to a team of Penn State researchers. Trust in Amazon Alexa went up for regular users who were given the option to adjust their privacy and content settings, the researchers found in a recent study.
Researchers say that Amazon and Google need to focus on weeding out malicious skills from the getgo, rather than after they are already live.
Lasers Mimicking Voice Commands Can Open DoorsIt's a laser-focused hack. Literally. Voice-controlled assistants such as Amazon's Alexa, Apple's Siri and Google's Assistant can be tricked into...
A friend heard a couple arguing but couldn't make out what it was about. Police hope that Alexa might have a better idea.
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...
The researchers' "Smart Spies" apps showed how Amazon Alexa and Google Home users could be exposed to vishing and eavesdropping.
Karsten Nohl, who was behind this week's research that outlined new eavesdropping hacks for Alexa and Google Home, says that privacy for smart home assistants still has a ways to go.