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The Voice Assistant Gambit →

September 11, 2017 by Marc Handelman in All is Information, Alternate Attack Vectors, Alternate Attack Analysis, Physical Security, Information Security, Signals, Communication Security, Communications, Hardware Flaws, Hardware Security

Nicole Kobie, writing at New Scientist, tells the tale of newly researched voice assistant attack vectors leveraging signalling flaws (via an ultrasound attack) within both Apple Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: AAPL) and Amazon.com Inc.'s (NasdaqGS: AMZN) voice assitant offerings Siri and Alexa, respectively. The 'Dominoe Effect' of the ultrasound flaws in these products/services traverses down the device foodchain to Alexa and soo-to-be Siri enabled third party devices... Perhaps new protective sound generating devices are in order?

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September 11, 2017 /Marc Handelman
All is Information, Alternate Attack Vectors, Alternate Attack Analysis, Physical Security, Information Security, Signals, Communication Security, Communications, Hardware Flaws, Hardware Security
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