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Amazon Echo turned into snooping device by Chinese hackers

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  1. Amazon Echo turned into snooping device by Chinese hackers  The INQUIRER

  2. Amazon Echo speakers turned into listening devices by expert Chinese hackers  Metro
  3. White-hat Chinese hackers turn Alexa into a spy, briefly  Digital Trends
  4. Hackers Found a (Not-So-Easy) Way to Make the Amazon Echo a Spy Bug  WIRED
  5. Security flaw in Amazon Echo speakers may have allowed hackers to spy on users  Telegraph.co.uk

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Adrian Lamo, former hacker who turned in Chelsea Manning, dead at 37

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Enlarge / Lamo, left posing with fellow hacker friends Kevin Mitnick and Keven Poulsen circa 2001. (credit: Photograph by Matthew Griffiths)

Adrian Lamo, the former hacker who reported Chelsea Manning to US authorities for leaking hundreds of thousands of classified State Department records, has died at the age of 37, according to a family Facebook post and a report from ZDNet, which cited two of Lamo’s family members and a county coroner.

“With great sadness and a broken heart I have to let know all of Adrian’s friends and acquittances that he is dead,” his father, Mario Lamo, wrote in a Facebook post. “A bright mind and compassionate soul is gone, he was my beloved son.”

It’s not yet known how Lamo died.

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Lebanese Intelligence Turned Targets’ Android Phones Into Spy Devices, Researchers Say

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  1. Lebanese Intelligence Turned Targets’ Android Phones Into Spy Devices, Researchers Say  New York Times

  2. Lebanese security agency turns smartphone into selfie spycam: researchers  Reuters
  3. Mapping FinFisher’s Continuing Proliferation – The Citizen Lab  The Citizen Lab

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