{"id":599,"date":"2022-03-29T07:46:19","date_gmt":"2022-03-29T11:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/?p=599"},"modified":"2022-03-29T07:46:19","modified_gmt":"2022-03-29T11:46:19","slug":"novel-attack-turns-amazon-devices-against-themselves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/2022\/03\/29\/novel-attack-turns-amazon-devices-against-themselves\/","title":{"rendered":"Novel Attack Turns Amazon Devices Against Themselves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from the University of London and Catania University have discovered how to weapon Amazon Echo devices for self-attack. To get the device to play a maliciously crafted recording, the attacker needs a smart phone or laptop within Bluetooth pairing range. Unlike Internet-based attacks, this scenario requires proximity to the target device.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Once paired, the Bluetooth device can connect and disconnect from the Echo without having to perform the pairing process again. Therefore, the real attack could occur within a few days of pairing. The research prompted Amazon to patch the command self-publishing vulnerability, which was caused by a long period of silence caused by interrupting tags, as demonstrated by the researchers. They also set up systems to continuously monitor for potentially malicious behavior in real time.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"0Eip7JiQld\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/attack-amazon-devices-against-themselves\/178797\/\">Novel Attack Turns Amazon Devices Against Themselves<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"&#8220;Novel Attack Turns Amazon Devices Against Themselves&#8221; &#8212; Threatpost - English - Global - threatpost.com\" src=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/attack-amazon-devices-against-themselves\/178797\/embed\/#?secret=2MiJvQLggj#?secret=0Eip7JiQld\" data-secret=\"0Eip7JiQld\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Dan Xu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Researchers from the University of London and Catania University have discovered how to weapon Amazon Echo devices for self-attack. To get the device to play a maliciously crafted recording, the attacker needs a smart phone or laptop within Bluetooth pairing range. Unlike Internet-based attacks, this scenario requires proximity to the target device. &nbsp; Once [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23601,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[663943],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-instructor","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23601"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":600,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599\/revisions\/600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5203sec001spring2020\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}