Amazon “smart speakers” can now hack *themselves*. 🤦
Academic researchers have devised a new working exploit that commandeers Amazon Echo smart speakers and forces them to unlock doors, make phone calls and unauthorized purchases, and control furnaces, microwave ovens, and other smart appliances.
DON’T PUT CONSUMER DEVICES ON YOUR CORPORATE NETWORK!!!!
In fact, be very wary of connecting them to anything important. At all.
It’s also another reason to work with an IT managed services provider: they can worry about these things so you don’t have to.
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