Months after researchers disclosed a new way to exploit Alexa and Google Home smart speakers to spy on users, those same researchers now warn that Amazon and Google have yet to create effective ways to prevent the eavesdropping hack.
The researchers who in October disclosed the “Smart Spies” hack, which enables eavesdropping, voice-phishing, or using people’s voice cues to determine passwords, told Threatpost this week that little has been done to prevent the hacks from being launched.
