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<ul><li>Google Smart Home Speaker can be hacked, claims a researcher </li><li>The device can be used to listen to your private conversations using remote access via a backdoor account. </li><li>This was recently discovered by a researcher named Matt Kunze.</li></ul>The saying walls have ears is as old as time, but it seems this is now our reality. Worse, when you realize it might be the smart home speaker on the side table listening to you. Recently a researcher named Matt Kunze discovered that hackers could spy on you by accessing the <keyword id="6358470" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="google-home" source="Orion">Google Home</keyword> smart speaker. According to <a href="https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/google-home-speakers-allowed-hackers-to-snoop-on-conversations/">Bleeping computer</a> (via Android Central), Kunze was messing around with a Nest Mini when he discovered that a rogue account could be created using the Google Home App. This backdoor account can then be used to get remote access to the smart speaker, including its microphone feed. The rogue account uses cloud API (application programming interface) to send commands to the smart speaker. The API allows multiple computer programs to communicate. The information needed to hack the intelligent speaker includes the device’s name, certificate, and cloud ID. The hacker can send a request to Google’s server to link the smart speaker using this information. Then it can be used to make online transactions, control smart appliances, and even unlock the front door. Kunze discovered it by making a malicious routine that included a call command. This allowed him to activate the microphone in the smart speaker at a specified time. He even recorded a video showing how the Nest Mini’s microphone can send conversations to a smartphone. Upon discovering it, Kunze received $1,07,500 from Google. <div type="Youtube" id="2FNctCA7JaI" title="Google Home Mini remote call demo" thumbUrl="https://i.ytimg.com/vi/2FNctCA7JaI/mqdefault.jpg"><url><![CDATA[https://youtu.be/2FNctCA7JaI]]></url></div> However, worry not. Kunze discovered this in January 2021, and Google fixed it in April 2021. Anyone running the latest firmware is absolutely safe from this issue. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/apple-airpods-lite-might-launch-soon/articleshow/96704050.cms" style="">Cheaper AirPods could be on the way — Apple reportedly working on a toned down pair of earbuds</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/apps/news/series-creators-want-more-money-after-ads-appear-on-netflix/articleshow/96700323.cms">Series creators want more money after ads appear on Netflix</a>

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Chip maker <keyword id="6369515" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="mediatek" source="Orion">MediaTek</keyword> on Tuesday announced the latest chipset -- octa-core Genio 700 designed for smart home, smart retail, and industrial IoT products. The chipset comes with support for FHD60+4K60 display, as well as an ISP (<keyword id="5382294" type="General" weightage="20" keywordseo="image-signal-processor" source="Orion">Image Signal Processor</keyword>) for better images, and it will be commercially available starting in Q2 2023, said the company. "With a focus on industrial and smart home products, the Genio 700 is a perfect natural addition to the lineup to ensure we can provide the widest range of support possible to our customers," Richard Lu, Vice President of MediaTek IoT Business Unit said in a statement. With a focus on power efficiency, the MediaTek Genio 700 is a 6nm IoT (Internet of Things) chipset that boasts two ARM A78 cores running at 2.2GHz. Moreover, the chipset allows designers to customise products using Yocto Linux, Ubuntu, and Android. With this support, customers can easily develop their own products with a minimal amount of effort, regardless of application type, according to the company. In additional features, it supports high-speed interfaces and dual display. The new chipset will be featured as part of a demo at MediaTek's booth at Consumer Electronics Show (CES) 2023. SEE ALSO: <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/india-could-exempt-feature-phones-hearables-and-wearables-from-the-usb-c-rule/articleshow/96705056.cms" style="">India could exempt feature phones, hearables, and wearables from the USB-C rule</a> <a target="_blank" class="c-link c-message_attachment__title_link" href="https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/google-home-can-be-hacked-and-snooped-on-listening-conversations/articleshow/96704649.cms" style="">Researcher finds Google Home speaker vulnerable of getting hacked and snooping on conversations</a>

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<div class="KonaFilter image-container display-table"><div><div class="image on-image">RingRing Chief Inventor Jamie Siminoff</div></div></div><ul class="summary-list"><li>Amazon acquired smart doorbell startup Ring one year ago as of April 12 for a reported $1 billion.</li><li>Ring founder Jamie Siminoff discusses how his company fits into Amazon more broadly in an interview with Business Insider.</li><li>Siminoff says he's often tapped to sit in on meetings for projects and upcoming products, including the development of Alexa Guard, Amazon's home security feature for its Echo smart speakers. </li><li>In general, though, he says that Ring is still running exactly as before - but with the added bonus that he has access to the company's vast resources whenever it needs anything. "I almost feel like I'm kind of like brought into the Amazon shopping mall," he says. </li></ul>Jamie Siminoff has built his career on founding startups and inking deals with large companies.Unsubscribe Inc., a company he co-founded in 2010 that made a tool for easily un-registering from email lists, sold to TrustedID in 2011. Before that, in 2009, Siminoff struck a partnership with Ditech Networks that gave the firm exclusive rights to sell his speech-to-text voicemail subscription service to other companies. Ditech Networks has, in turn, since been acquired by speech recognition software maker Nuance.But Siminoff's biggest exit wouldn't come until nearly a decade later when he would <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-acquiring-doorbell-videocamera-startup-ring-2018-2">sell Ring</a>, the home security startup he founded in 2013 - famously, after he <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/shark-tank-ring-jamie-siminoff-guest-shark-2018-10">got rejected on Shark Tank</a>- to Amazon for a reported $1 billion in 2018. Ring, which initially gained attention with its line of video doorbells and has since expanded to other security products, will officially have been part of the <keyword id="6354851" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="retail">retail</keyword> juggernaut for a full year as of April 12.For Siminoff, the experience isn't all that different from his startup days."We're this huge company with hundreds of thousands of team members, and yet [Amazon] still has nimbleness," Siminoff said of his experience with Amazon after a year. "It's just got a very entrepreneurial foundation to it."<h2>Making a splash at Amazon</h2>Siminoff still considers himself Chief Inventor at Ring, a title he's long preferred over Chief Executive Officer, and says much of his time is spent running the company he built.But that doesn't mean he hasn't had an impact on Amazon's broader product portfolio. Siminoff reports to Dave Limp, Amazon's senior vice president of services and devices, and says he's frequently sought out for his input on projects."[At Amazon] they are inventing and looking at a lot of different things all the time in different areas," he said. "So I'll be brought into a call or a session where they're going to look at XYZ product in a totally new category."What exactly those products and categories are, Siminoff cannot say. But he did contribute to Alexa Guard, the feature Amazon announced in 2018 that makes it possible for Amazon's digital helper to send alerts about the sound of breaking glass and activity from smoke detectors. Alexa Guard can also integrate with security systems from Ring and third parties like ADT."I definitely had a lot of insight and amazing meetings and things that were going on with [Alexa Guard] before it was launched that were very fun to help [with] and sort of be part of the team," he says. "And that was really more of an Alexa thing, which Alexa to me was always this amazing product that I used. Now I get to see and maybe even shape some pieces around the edge of it."Siminoff was also able to leverage his expertise when it came to the company's acquisition of Wi-Fi mesh networking startup Eero. That deal valued Eero at $97 million in a fire sale, according to documents obtained by Business Insider.Read: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-paid-97-million-to-acquire-eero-in-fire-sale-leaked-documents-2019-4">Amazon paid $97 million to acquire Eero in a fire-sale deal that left some shareholders with practically nothing, according to leaked documents</a>"We were involved a little bit as a division of Amazon that relies heavily on great Wi-Fi," Siminoff said. "Eero had always been the best in class that we had been able to use and recommend to our customers...I wouldn't say at all [that] we did the deal... But I do think we were certainly a part of it because we are a product that requires great Wi-Fi connectivity. We use a lot of bandwidth so we were certainly very sensitive to Wi-Fi networks."<h2>'They're not telling us what to do'</h2>Ring, for the most part, is run exactly how it was before becoming part of Amazon, he says. Siminoff even says "you almost kind of forget" that Ring is now owned by one of the most valuable companies in the world. That is, until it's time to break out the checkbook."I almost feel like I'm kind of like brought into the Amazon shopping mall," Siminoff said. "It's like I was given a credit card and it's like, 'Go to whichever stores you need and buy whatever you need for yourself.' They're not telling us what to do, we get to ask."It's not just financial support that Ring has benefited from over the past year. Being part of such a large company also means Ring has the advantage of working with Amazon's security team and being held to the company's security standards. That's critical as ever for a company like Ring that creates devices capable of recording video and audio.In February, for example, <a href="https://dojo.bullguard.com/dojo-by-bullguard/blog/ring/">researchers discovered</a> a vulnerability Ring had patched <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2019/2/27/18243296/ring-doorbell-hacked-fake-images-security-experts">that could have let intruders</a>inject fake images into the Ring Video Doorbell's video feed, or snoop on its recordings."One thing with security that's important for everyone to understand is that the world continues to change and evolve," Siminoff said. "There's no such thing as something that's secure and stays secure forever. You're going to need to have that continued watching over it."<h2>Behind the curtain </h2>Siminoff's team also has the benefit of being able to learn about Amazon's product development process, and applying those insights to their own projects. Ring also has access to the resources of Lab126, Amazon's San Francisco-based outfit responsible for developing its consumer electronics gadgets like the Echo, which they can consult when facing issues. If Ring is having difficulties with the Wi-Fi antenna on a product, for example, they can contact Lab126 for guidance."The next thing you know, you have a team that's immediate that can step in," he said.Today, Siminoff is in a position many startup founders would likely hope to find themselves in. He's still running the company he founded more than six years ago with the support of an industry giant like Amazon. But he wasn't always in such a favorable situation. When he presented his idea for a smart doorbell on the ABC reality show Shark Tank in 2013 - then called DoorBot- each judge passed on his idea. To Siminoff, that kind of struggle and rejection is necessary for achieving success."It should be really hard and it should be something that you have to fight for, and it should be something that is a lot of risk," he said. "Because if you actually make it, the rewards outweigh the work that you put in." <div class="margin-top"> <h3>NOW WATCH: <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/foldable-phone-samsung-huawei-apple-motorola-2019-3">Everyone's talking about foldable phones, but a few things need to happen before people start buying them</a></h3> <div> </div> </div>

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