"Apple's Siri Personal Reveals"

Users with an iPhone or iPad who appreciate their privacy, the voice assistant Siri better off if they do not use it. Experts Trend Micro maintain that someone on an iPhone or iPad when Siri is activated within 30 seconds after the full name, email, phone number and profile picture may come. It does not matter whether the device is locked.

Data

Who has a phone in hand, with his voice can retrieve all kinds of information, such as name, contact information and even calendar appointments. By the command 'what is my name' to speak of, for example, Siri intones the full name of the owner.And so there are a number of assignments which Siri, even if the smartphone or tablet is blocked.

Privacy

It is, according to Trend Micro a weakness of Siri where users already longer complain on Internet forums. According to Trend Micro not only the privacy of the owner of the iPhone or iPad at stake, but also the contacts of that person.

Apple late in a response to the security company that Siri users can disable it on a locked screen. This can be done via the Settings menu and then using the "Touch ID & password 'option and then' Siri '. As the personal assistant can be switched off.

Samsung Smart TV transmits voice audio unencrypted

The voice commands that smart saving TVs from Samsung and forwarding are sent unencrypted to a third party, as has discovered a security researcher. Recently there was great commotion about the voice recognition of the Samsung SmartTV which consumers via voice commands can control the TV.

Security Researcher David Lodge decided the traffic that comes to investigate the television. While he saw a connection on port 443, which normally indicates HTTPS. Lodge then decided to view the contents of the data stream and saw that it was not going to encrypted data. It was not even HTTP data, but a combination of XML, and a binary data packet. "The weasels, they use 443 / TCP to tunnel over the dates, probably because many standard default firewall configurations traffic to port 80 and 443 permit outside the network," said the researcher.

It also showed that all kinds of information on the screen is sent, such as MAC address and the version of the operating system. The voice command could be seen that he gave. It suggests Lodge that television does not listen to users unless it is activated by the command. Something, however, with each subsequent firmware update may change, making continuous listening which would be possible, he warns. Lodge Samsung therefore calls to use anyway SSL.