May 7, 2018

Researchers at cybersecurity firm Checkmarx created what seemed to be a harmless calculator skill, or an application used for the voice-activated assistant, that would secretly record long after a user made a command. Alexa-enabled devices are programmed to only respond

Alexa is a good listener — so good, in fact, that researchers discovered a way to have it record audio indefinitely. Amazon’s smart voice assistant had a coding flaw that could have let malicious developers turn the Echo into a

Researchers at the security firm CheckMarx discovered a security flaw in Amazon’s Alexa voice enabled digital personal assistant that could have been used to eavesdrop and transcribe any ambient conversation. But, there are caveats: The flaw requires a user to not