Alexa, swap out this code that Amazon approved for malware… Installed Skills can double-cross their users

Computer security bods based in Germany and the US have analyzed the security measures protecting Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant ecosystem and found them wanting. In research presented on Wednesday at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium (NDSS) conference, researchers describe flaws in the process Amazon uses to review third-party Alexa applications known as Skills.

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