More than a year later, we now learn that a security breach would have allowed any hacker to illegally listen to private conversations. By accessing the microphones of the Google Home assistant, each device could have become a spy.
Do not throw your Google Assistant in the shower or in your toilet, the flaw has already been resolved by the security teams of the American giant. However, we learned yesterday that a computer researcher has detected a major flaw in the security of Google Assistants. This flaw would have allowed him tolisten to any private conversation. After being graciously rewarded by the American company, the researcher thus enabled Google to quickly rectify this problem.
The flaw was to add itself as new device user. By illegally pairing up with the Google Home system, malicious people could have used any functionality offered by Google, such as the microphone connected. The maneuver to follow to pair with the Google Assistant turned out to be relatively complex and has not been fully unveiled by the American brand (surely not to give bad ideas to some). Only the blinking of the blue fitting LED for a few seconds could have indicated an action not desired by the user. Impossible to spot so if you don’t have your eyes glued to your Google Assistant, 7 days a week, 24 hours a day. However, according to the American firm, the complexity of this process would have prevented any massive form of piracy.
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Are our personal data more and more vulnerable?
Faced with this new announcement, the question of security of our data personal is, once again, put back on the table. If yesterday, we announced that American researchers had succeeded in identifying a user, his sex, as well as the content of his conversations thanks to the vibrations recorded by the sensors of his phone, today this new announcement will not reassure users. of connected devices. Our personal information is increasingly vulnerable.
As a reminder, according to recent studies, a third of Internet users have already seen their personal data compromised by certain malicious activities. A constantly growing figure which also reflects the overall increase in cybercrime on the internet. Between 2019 and today, acts of cybercrime have increased by more than 600%.
