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Best of 2021 – Alexa, OK Google, Siri—Sued for Spying
Amazon, Apple and Google will have their days in court, charged with listening to your conversations when you least expect it ...
1,000 False Wakewords: A Letter! Buy 200 Toilet Rolls
Researchers have found a thousand ways to say smart-speaker wakewords, highlighting the privacy problems. Again ...
Whistleblower Says Apple Built Secret Dossier on You, via Siri
Ex-Apple contractor doubles down on warning: Apple misusing audio recordings from the Siri voice assistant ...
“Hey Alexa, What’s a Phone Book?”
Recently, my husband came home from his day at work and during our normal evening conversation, I asked, “How was work today?” His reply was, “It was alright, we had another order ...
Facebook Data Leaks, Smart Speaker Laser Attack, BlueKeep in the Wild
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 ...
DoorDash Data Breach, Voice Assistant Privacy Changes, Limiting Ad Tracking
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 88 for September 30th 2019: DoorDash announces a data ...
Android “Ghost Click” Apps, New Apple Siri Privacy Protections, Credit Card Spying
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 84 for September 2nd 2019: “Ghost click” Android apps ...
Our Devices Listening?
…or is it “are devices listening” to you? Well yes. There’s always a simple answer to these questions and it’s yes. Breaking it down to the basics, pretty much all of our ...
Yes, you should update your iPhone to iOS 12.1, but its lock screen is *still* unsafe
Apple has released its first major update to iOS 12 – iOS 12.1 – bringing a host of new features to iPhones and iPads including dual SIM support, Group Facetime, and for ...
Even with the latest iOS 12 update, your iPhone’s lockscreen is unsafe
Once again, a way of bypassing the iPhone’s passcode lock to expose users’ photos and contacts has been discovered. Jose Rodriguez, who has uncovered vulnerabilities in iOS’s lock screen security on a ...
