Keeping your gate locked on your IoT devices: Vulnerabilities found on Amazon Alexa
After speculating the device could be a prime entry-point for hackers, Check Point researchers identify serious security flaws in Alexa, the intelligent virtual assistant made by Amazon with over 200 million devices shipped. In just one-click, a user could have given up their voice history, home address and control of their Amazon account. • Security investigation finds Alexa and Amazon subdomains contained multiple vulnerabilities • Attacker could have accessed voice history and personal information: banking data history, usernames, phone numbers and home address • Attacker could have silently installed, viewed and removed Alexa skills Read the full research at research.checkpoint.com Check Point Research on Facebook: facebook.com/CheckpointResearch Check Point Research on Twitter: twitter.com/_CPResearch_ Check Point Research Podcast channel: research.checkpoint.com/category/cpradio/
