"Privacy Issues and Security Risks in Alexa Skills"

A new study from a team of researchers from Germany's Ruhr-Universität Bochum, North Carolina State University, and Google suggests that Alexa Skills often have security weaknesses and data protection problems that attackers can exploit to perform malicious activities. These Skills are voice-driven Alexa capabilities. The researchers analyzed more than 90,000 Alexa Skills from the Amazon store across seven countries. They found problems with Skills that create security and privacy risks for users. This article continues to discuss the researchers' discovery of privacy issues and security risks in Alexa Skills, as well as the source of security gaps and data protection problems associated with these Skills.

Ruhr-Universität Bochum reports "Privacy Issues and Security Risks in Alexa Skills"