Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:17:59 +0000
Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 13:07:04 +0000
Researchers have demonstrated how voice assistants can be secretly activated without ever physically touching the device.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/d4GKhM4slSc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2020 11:47:17 +0000
That smart home speaker isn’t listening to everything you say, according to new research – but it is listening a lot more than it should.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/J0yh5jhzK8w” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 04 Feb 2020 10:44:29 +0000
Google’s Super Bowl ad featured an elderly man’s voice as he asked Google Assistant to help him remember details about his late wife.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/a63Ljbmk14I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:41:10 +0000
The Better Business Bureau reports that scammers have worked out how to game search results for company customer support telephone numbers.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/3nK_drrO_gM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2019 12:26:32 +0000
A Skype Translator insider claims it’s good because humans are listening in and helping to train its artificial intelligence.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/nP5shmE4_uY” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2019 14:20:21 +0000
Apple and Google have announced that they will limit the way audio recorded by their voice assistants, Siri and Google Assistant, are accessed internally by contractors.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/6WDIUcUa8Ns” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2019 13:28:24 +0000
Apple Watch and HomePod have the highest rate of inadvertent recordings, a whistleblower says.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/NBH7Od8K-QM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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