A scientist I work with who deals with voice activated technology sent this note of caution for people who have it in their homes. I didn't know that it stores your commands, and can even store your conversations! -
DID YOU KNOW? If you have voice activated (smart) TV, or the Google (voice) or Amazon (echo) or Apple (siri) voice activation or any other device or application connected to the internet that responds to your voice commands, then you are allowing audio from your home to be sent to servers on the internet for translation AND STORAGE.
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The Internet of Things (IoT), smart thermostats, refrigerators, etc is already being run as zombie bots to execute DDOS attacks and spam delivery. It is only a matter of time for your “smart” refrigerator, thermostat, electronic door lock, etc to be hacked to your detriment.
WHAT CAN BE HACKED? -, As security researchers revealed a vulnerability in Fisher-Price’s “Smart Toys” which could have exposed children’s profiles to hackers, including names, birthdates, gender, language, and more, as well as allowing for hijacking of children’s accounts to change their user profiles or other data.
BOTTOM LINE: Be very careful about installing such “technologically sweet” items in your home.
CHECK THESE PLACES FOR BREACHES: I highly recommend the following URLs to keep you up-to-date on the internet threats (personal and professional).
https://www.databreaches.net/
Most up-to-date, but brief descriptions, of the latest breaches
http://krebsonsecurity.com/
Excellent, in-depth reporting, and provides a boatload of good information concerning threats to your personal digital security
https://www.scmagazine.com/
A web magazine for the business security reporting
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/
A more tech-savvy site
http://www.tomsguide.com/t/security/
More information for your personal digital security
http://thehackernews.com/
Rapid reporting of break-ins
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/
More information useful to your personal digital security
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
A site that will tell you if your Email identity has been harvested in the hack of some company’s database
(and … do you have yahoo Email account … if so, consider it compromised)
http://www.digitalattackmap.com/
A real-time digital attack map by Google
http://krebsonsecurity.com/
Excellent, in-depth reporting, and provides a boatload of good information concerning threats to your personal digital security
https://www.scmagazine.com/
A web magazine for the business security reporting
https://blog.malwarebytes.com/
A more tech-savvy site
http://www.tomsguide.com/t/security/
More information for your personal digital security
http://thehackernews.com/
Rapid reporting of break-ins
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/
More information useful to your personal digital security
https://haveibeenpwned.com/
A site that will tell you if your Email identity has been harvested in the hack of some company’s database
(and … do you have yahoo Email account … if so, consider it compromised)
http://www.digitalattackmap.com/
A real-time digital attack map by Google
