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TV news anchor triggers Alexa to attempt ordering dollhouses

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Last year, I was gifted an Amazon Echo; stunned, I stared at the gifter and thought to myself, have you ever met me…do you know me at all? The side of the Echo box listed features, starting with “fair-field voice control, with 7-microphone array and beam-forming technology to hear you from across the room.” Echo didn’t leave the box for six months.

When I finally did open Echo, I was interested in comparing functions of Echo against those of ZOE; the latter smart home assistant was developed by Protonet with privacy in mind – nothing goes to the cloud so it couldn’t be turned into a surveillance device.

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Recent DHHS data breach triggers cybersecurity concerns – Concord Monitor

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Concord Monitor

Recent DHHS data breach triggers cybersecurity concerns
Concord Monitor
State officials are working to strengthen the security of the state's computer network, after a data breach last year leaked the confidential information of thousands of New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services clients. A former patient at …

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Cryptocurrency software bundled with BitTorrent triggers complaints

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Some people who use uTorrent, the popular BitTorrent client, are up in arms over the presence of cryptocurrency mining software on their computers which they say was installed without their permission.

The mining software, made by the company Epic Scale, started appearing for some people earlier this week after they updated to the latest version of uTorrent, a program made by BitTorrent for downloading files. In forums online, users have likened the software to bloatware, as it taxes their computer processor without their consent. Cryptocurrency mining software is used to release bitcoins and other digital currencies by having computers persistently perform complex mathematical calculations.

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Android still triggers the most mobile malware, says F-Secure – CNET

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Android still triggers the most mobile malware, says F-Secure
CNET
In the past, Google has charged that Android security providers exaggerate the threat of malware in order to hawk their own products. The security vendors have countered that argument by saying that Android's very popularity has made it an open target …
F-Secure Releases First Quarter Mobile Threat ReportSYS-CON Media (press release)

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