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Amazon Echo, Google Home, Siri can be hacked with ‘light’ signals: Report The researchers noted it was possible to make microphones respond to light as if it were sound, which essentially means that anything that acts on sound commands will act on light commands Current Affairs :Analysts at the University of Michigan and Japan’s University of Electro-Communications have found they can utilize lasers to quietly “talk” to any PC that gets voice directions, which included cell phones, keen speakers like Amazon Echo, and Google Home, and Facebook’s Portal video visit gadgets, as indicated by media reports. Uncovering aftereffects of a stunning examination, the specialists noted it was conceivable to cause receivers to react to light as though it were sound, which basically implies that anything that follows up on sound directions will follow up on light directions. Cybersecurity specialist Takeshi Sugawara – visiting from the Tokyo-based University of Electro-Communications ...

Amazon’s deal to sell new Apple devices under US trade commission scanner The US FTC and the Justice Department are ramping up scrutiny of Silicon Valley’s biggest companies International :- The Federal Trade Commission is examining an arrangement Amazon.com Inc. made with Apple Inc. to sell iPhones straightforwardly on its internet business website, flagging the organization has expanded oversight of the tech mammoth. John Bumstead, who sells revamped Apple items, said in a Facebook post a month ago that around seven legal advisors and a financial specialist from the FTC talked with him about the arrangement. He made the posting in a gathering of Apple affiliates that griped about being compelled to quit selling their renovated items on Amazon. The FTC and the Justice Department are increase examination of Silicon Valley’s greatest organizations. Facebook Inc. unveiled a week ago that the FTC is examining its organizations, that week the Justice Department declared an e...