Alexa wiretapping? How easily they can be spied on?
Once "Alexa" call - heard about the Amazon Echo you to and helps you in everyday life. However, you can easily be listened to?
- The Brite Mark Barnes of MWR InfoSecurity has Alexa accurate, and the data flows analyzed. Then he wanted to try to hack the Amazon Echo - a success: He worked a model of the Amazon echo to a permanent monitoring apparatus.
- So the home works business listening to: In the case of older echoes, which was delivered between 2015 and 2016, you could Unscrew the bottom of the speaker and on the Firmware access. With the help of a simple SD-card Barnes was able to hack (without traces) of the System and a malicious software install.
- A big threat not because of this Hack, however, there's the Amazon Echo, you must first get a Hacker in the Finger. From the distance he couldn't hack the Echo.
- However, it is likely to be only a matter of time until Amazon gets hacked, Echo from afar: The language assistant is connected via WLAN with the Router - that was often a weak. Because in the past routers have been hacked. Tip: is your Wi-Fi secure.
- It is also worrying that each voice command from Amazon will be stored permanently and evaluated. These commands can even be in the Alexa-App to listen to. And so it is that Alexa is listening accidentally and conversations picks up, although the key word "Alexa" is not like that.
- Conclusion: Anyone that takes Alexa into the house, you must always count on the fact that Alexa is listening also. Anyone who throws a glance in the App, are likely to wonder on the many recordings that Amazon collects. In order for the Router, if possible, not hacked, you should all Router install Updates.
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