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Privacy Settings for Amazon Echo and Google Home

Privacy Settings for Amazon Echo and Google Home

| | Alexa, Amazon Echo, Cybersecurity, Data Collection, Digital Privacy, Episodes, Google Home, Hey Google, Monthly Edition, Podcast, Privacy, smart speaker, Virtual Assistant
In episode 102 of our July monthly show Scott and Tom walk-through the recommended privacy settings for Amazon Echo and Google Home smart speakers. ** Links mentioned on the show ** 8 ...
The Shared Security Show
1,000 False Wakewords: A Letter! Buy 200 Toilet Rolls

1,000 False Wakewords: A Letter! Buy 200 Toilet Rolls

| | Alexa, Cortana, google assistant, iot, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, Siri, smart speaker, Speech-to-text
Researchers have found a thousand ways to say smart-speaker wakewords, highlighting the privacy problems. Again ...
Security Boulevard
I Am Alexa, and I Am Here to Help: Simple Tweaks to Help Reduce Risk from Voice-Controlled Devices

I Am Alexa, and I Am Here to Help: Simple Tweaks to Help Reduce Risk from Voice-Controlled Devices

| | Alexa, Amazon Echo, Echo Dot, Internet of things, Privacy, Security Awareness, smart speaker
Over the last few years, smart devices – once a rare novelty for only the elite and early-adopters – have become a common household item, partly in thanks to Amazon’s economical Alexa-powered ...
Security – TechSpective
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Researchers discover vulnerabilities in smart assistants’ voice commands

| | amazon, cybercrime, google, Hacking, Internet of things, iot, smart assistant, smart speaker, virtual personal assistant, voice assistant, voice masquerading, voice squatting, vulnerability
Security researchers have now found new ways to exploit voice recognition weaknesses in your favorite home device: smart assistants. You may want to listen in. Categories: Cybercrime Hacking Tags: amazonGoogleInternet of ThingsIoTsmart ...
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