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With so many millions of people working from home, the value of voice control during the pandemic will ensure that this year, voice control device shipments will grow globally by close to 30% over 2019-despite the key China market being impacted during the first quarter of 2020, according to global tech market advisory firm, ABI Research. Last year, 141 million voice control smart home devices shipped worldwide, the firm said.
This week we discuss the latest in the Clearview AI debacle, get more tales from the ransomware swamp and discover how often our smart speakers are listening to us. Host Anna Brading is joined by Sophos experts Paul Ducklin and Peter Mackenzie, and me!
Britain's National Cyber Security Centre wants owners of baby monitors and smart CCTV cameras to take some basic security precautions. Keep your camera secure by regularly updating security software.
Emerging technologies being adopted by cities - like facial recognition, smart-city technologies like smart lighting, and 5G-driven IoT - are opening up municipalities to even more security and privacy threats. Tara Seals: So I wanted to talk to you a little bit about smart cities and municipalities in general and some of the security threats that they're facing.
The vulnerabilities were discovered in the iBaby Monitor M6S connected baby camera by researchers with Bitdefender. "We've tried to reach out to iBaby since May 2019 about three major vulnerabilities in their baby monitor but haven't heard back," Alex Jay Balan, chief security researcher at Bitdefender, said during an RSA session.
Researchers have found some speakers activating by mistake up to 19 times each day. The researchers wanted to simulate real-world conditions, so they set up a variety of smart speakers with embedded virtual assistants and played them 125 hours of audio from various Netflix shows ranging from The Office to The Big Bang Theory and Narcos.
Cisco has released a new batch of security fixes for a number of its products, including its Smart Software Manager On-Prem solution and its Email Security and Content Security Management Appliances. The critical flaw is in the High Availability service of the Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem.
Cisco has released patches for sixteen vulnerabilities across its products, including one rated critical, six high severity, and nine medium risk. The critical vulnerability impacts Cisco's Smart Software Manager On-Prem licensing solution and could allow a remote, unauthenticated attacker to access system data with high privileges.
Cisco has released fixes to address 17 vulnerabilities across its networking and unified communications lines. The lone critical bulletin is for CVE-2020-3158, a bug caused by the presence of a high-privilege account with a static password present in the Cisco Smart Software Manager tool.
Singapore will remain the top investor in smart cities initiatives. These four cities will each see smart city spending of more than $1 billion in 2020.