Connected Device Security Loopholes

Published 2020-03

Throughout 2018, researchers showed how Amazon’s Alexa and Google Home devices could be used to eavesdrop on users by employing techniques similar to conventional phishing attacks.

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Verdict

renamedThe same phenomenon is listed again within two editions under a new name (D33).

Continued as ftsg-tech-trends-2021-309

A trend is graded on whether the publisher keeps it, never as a hit or a miss (D6, D33).

All captured fields

rank: 313
section: Privacy
subject: Connected Device Security Loopholes
page: 275
confidence: medium
note: Title from the contents list in the SlideShare transcript of the publisher upload; order and section from contents page numbers. Quote added 2026-10-02 from the full slide transcript of the publisher upload (SlideShare, Wayback capture of the newer page format); source_url points at the section that holds the page.