Hacking the Amazon Echo | Avast

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At DEFCON last week, white hat hackers explained during a presentation that it is indeed possible to hack an Amazon Echo. Security researchers from Chinese conglomerate Tencent described the steps they took to turn a regular, working Echo into a spying device, completely through remote activation. And while this may sound like alarming news, it’s important to note that a key factor of the hack is that the interceptor must be on the same LAN.

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