{"id":17100,"date":"2018-04-25T15:24:35","date_gmt":"2018-04-25T20:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17100"},"modified":"2018-04-25T15:24:35","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T20:24:35","slug":"researchers-hacked-amazons-alexa-to-spy-on-users-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17100","title":{"rendered":"Researchers Hacked Amazon&#8217;s Alexa to Spy On Users, Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>\u201cOn default, Alexa ends the sessions after each duration\u2026 we were able to build in a feature that kept the session going [so Alexa would continue listening]. We also wanted to make sure that the user is not prompted and that Alexa is still listening without re-prompts,\u201d Erez Yalon, manager of Application Security Research at Checkmarx, told Threatpost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/researchers-hacked-amazons-alexa-to-spy-on-users-again\/131401\/\">Researchers Hacked Amazon&#8217;s Alexa to Spy On Users, Again | Threatpost | The first stop for security news<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cOn default, Alexa ends the sessions after each duration\u2026 we were able to build in a feature that kept the session going [so Alexa would continue listening]. We also wanted to make sure that the user is not prompted and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=17100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[206,1308,188,698],"class_list":["post-17100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpe","tag-amazon","tag-internet-ofthings","tag-privacy","tag-security-research"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17100"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17101,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17100\/revisions\/17101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}