Latest Alexa hack shows Echo could be turned into scary spying device - Checkmarx

Latest Alexa hack shows Echo could be turned into scary spying device

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May 7, 2018

According to Forbesthe discovery was made by a company called Checkmarx, whose tools test the security of soon-to-be released software.

The hack exploits Alexa’s in-built function to listen out for follow-up commands from the user – for example, it might ask did you mean pm or am when you asked to set an alarm for a certain time.

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