Intel wants to give you peace of mind when talking to your digital assistant. The company filed a patent application for a “privacy preservi...

Double Feature! An IoT Cautionary Tale... A Crazy Ex Tale... A jilted London woman allegedly hacked into her ex-boyfriend’s Amazon Alexa de...

As voice assistants like Google Assistant and Alexa increasingly make their way into internet of things devices, it’s becoming harder to tra...

(Note: As of this date the manufacturer is only accepting pre-orders . Gauging demand before going into production is not uncommon. The fol...

Since voice-controlled digital assistants were introduced a few years ago, security experts have fretted that systems like Apple’s Siri and ...

Researchers at Germany’s SRLabs found two hacking scenarios — eavesdropping and phishing — for both Amazon Alexa and Google Home/Nest dev...

Google employees have accused their employer of creating a surveillance tool disguised as a calendar extension designed to monitor gathering...

The privacy backlash against AI-powered digital assistants has just taken an interesting twist, with a senior exec from one of the core pr...

Finally, another childhood fantasy becomes reality. Hard on the heals of wall screen TVs; Dick Tracy's wrist radio. The now iconi...

Alexa users who don’t want their recordings reviewed by third-party contractors finally have an option to opt-out... Unfortunately, Amaz...

Tens of millions of people use smart speakers and their voice software to play games, find music or trawl for trivia. Millions more are re...

Alexa, what’s my neighbor doing? ‘Human error’ allows user to eavesdrop on stranger’s life. A German Amazon customer was able to access h...

The recent incident of a smart speaker secretly recording a couple’s conversation and sending it to one of their contacts has implanted a se...

A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon's Alexa -- ...

Many people have grown accustomed to talking to their smart devices, asking them to read a text, play a song or set an alarm. But someon...

We construct targeted audio adversarial examples on automatic speech recognition.  Given any audio waveform, we can produce another that i...

It's important not to overstate the security risks of the Amazon Echo and other so-called smart speakers. They're useful, fun, and g...

Patent applications from Amazon and Google revealed how their Alexa and Voice Assistant powered smart speakers are 'spying' on you. ...