Secret signals
Technology | Internet-connected voice assistants prove vulnerable to hacking
by Michael Cochrane
Posted 3/07/19, 04:06 pm
Hackers always seem to find a way to exploit emerging technologies, whether by picking the digital locks on cars and hotel rooms or by cloning credit card numbers on a website. The explosion in popularity of artificially intelligent voice assistants such as Alexa and Siri presents a lucrative target for exploitation, and researchers are now discovering special vulnerabilities in voice-recognition technology.