{"id":15109,"date":"2019-04-17T03:30:04","date_gmt":"2019-04-17T11:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/04\/17\/news-8858\/"},"modified":"2019-04-17T03:30:04","modified_gmt":"2019-04-17T11:30:04","slug":"news-8858","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/2019\/04\/17\/news-8858\/","title":{"rendered":"Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 88"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:42:04 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/04\/17064025\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-88-featured.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/media.kasperskydaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/92\/2019\/04\/17064025\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-88-featured.jpg\" alt=\"The latest edition of the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast includes stories about Amazon Alexa privacy concerns, a UK government BCC error, and hard-coded passwords on a smart-car app\" width=\"1460\" height=\"960\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-26492\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>In this week&#8217;s episode, David Emm, principal security researcher at Kaspersky Lab&#8217;s GReAT, joins David, while Jeff takes some time off to recover from the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/tag\/sas-2019\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Security Analyst Summit 2019<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the podcast, David and David look at a new report from Bloomberg that reveals Amazon is using auditors to listen in on Amazon Echo recordings to fine-tune Alexa. They then look at how a UK government agency forgot to use BCC and accidentally sent sensitive personal information to strangers.<\/p>\n<p>They also look at how an app that is supposed to turn your car into a smart car turned out to be not so smart \u2014 it used hard-coded passwords.<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy the podcast, consider subscribing and sharing with your friends who need more regular updates on security. For the full text of the stories, please visit the links below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/threatpost.com\/amazon-auditors-listen-to-echo-recordings-report-says\/143696\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Amazon auditors listen to Echo recordings, new report says<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-politics-47888214\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK home office sorry for EU citizen data breach<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2019\/04\/08\/social_media_explanation\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UK preps big Internet content laws<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/article\/tens-of-thousands-of-cars-left-exposed-to-thieves-due-to-a-hardcoded-password\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Tens of thousands of cars left exposed due to hard-coded password<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> <iframe loading=\"lazy\"  src=\"\/\/html5-player.libsyn.com\/embed\/episode\/id\/9397961\/height\/90\/theme\/custom\/thumbnail\/yes\/direction\/backward\/render-playlist\/no\/custom-color\/006d5c\/\" width=\"100%\" height=\"420\" frameborder=\"0\" ><\/iframe>  <\/p>\n<div class=\"podcast-subscribe\"><a data-omniture-download-button-type=\"TrialBuilds\" data-omniture-product-name=\"podcast-itunes\" class=\"itunes\" href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/talk-security\/id909407206?mt=2&#038;uo=4\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/kaspersky-embeds\/img\/button-subscribe-apple.png\" \/><\/a><a data-omniture-download-button-type=\"TrialBuilds\" data-omniture-product-name=\"podcast-spotify\" class=\"spotify\" href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/1VGCKlOoQ9C24dJiCHGTK5\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/kaspersky-embeds\/img\/button-subscribe-spotify.png\" \/><\/a><a data-omniture-download-button-type=\"TrialBuilds\" data-omniture-product-name=\"podcast-googleplay\" class=\"google\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/music\/m\/Iyc2gocjmpw44j4aafwzvd4uwee?t=Transatlantic_Cable_Podcast\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/kaspersky-embeds\/img\/button-subscribe-google.png\" \/><\/a><a data-omniture-download-button-type=\"TrialBuilds\" data-omniture-product-name=\"podcast-rss\" class=\"rss\" href=\"http:\/\/talksecurity.kaspersky-podcasts.libsynpro.com\/rss\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/kaspersky-embeds\/img\/button-subscribe-rss.png\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kaspersky.com\/blog\/transatlantic-cable-podcast-88\/26491\/\" target=\"bwo\" >https:\/\/blog.kaspersky.com\/feed\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Credit to Author: Jeffrey Esposito| Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2019 10:42:04 +0000<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This episode brings you stories of Amazon Alexa, a UK government BCC error, and so-called smart-car apps with hard-coded passwords.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[10425,10378],"tags":[7003,5588,11389,10458,32,5820,5897,14921,10438],"class_list":["post-15109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kaspersky","category-security","tag-alexa","tag-amazon","tag-connected-cars","tag-great","tag-news","tag-podcast","tag-privacy","tag-smart-cars","tag-threats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.palada.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}