amazon: Your Amazon Alexa Is a Spy
- 04/02/20 12:40 AM
Digital assistants like Google Assistant and Alexa, from Amazon, have a secret: they are secretly learning everything about you. They can hear your conversations, they know the tone of your voice, and they are recording it all. Now, all of this is important, according to Google and Amazon, because once these devices learn these things about you, they will work even better. However, it’s causing issues with consumers. For instance, a family reported that their Echo began spontaneously laughing at them. Another family reported that their Alexa recorded and sent a conversation to a friend without them knowing about it. Amazon claims … (4 comments)
amazon: You need Two-Factor Verification for your Amazon Account
- 09/06/16 12:01 AM
If you have a strong password for your Amazon account, you may still want to consider beefing up the security with two-factor verification (or authentication), which will prevent a thief from accessing your account (which is possible if he gets ahold of your password and username somehow). Log onto your Amazon account. Have your mobile phone with you. Click “Your Account.” Scroll down where it says “Settings—Password, Prime & E-mail.” Click “Login & Security Settings.” Go to “Change Account Settings” and at the bottom is “Advanced Security Settings.” Hit “Edit” there. You are now on the page for setting up two-step verification. … (4 comments)
amazon: Beware of Amazon's scary Customer Service Hack
- 03/02/16 09:50 PM
Do you shop at Amazon.com? Are you aware they have a back door through which hackers can slip in? Let’s look at Eric’s experience with hackers and Amazon, as he recounts at medium.com/@espringe. He received an e-mail from Amazon and contacted them to see what it was about. Amazon informed him that he had had a text-chat and sent him the transcript—which he had never been part of. Eric explains that the hacker gave Eric’s whois.com data to Amazon. However, the whois.com data was partially false because Eric wanted to remain private. So Eric’s “fake” whois.com information wasn’t 100 percent in left field; some of it was true … (2 comments)
amazon: The Cloud of Clouds: Amazon Web Services
- 10/13/11 04:40 PM
Amazon Web Services is a cloud-based service hosted by Amazon.com, which provides numerous tools for web-based businesses. The service’s primary function is to help businesses of any size compute and store data. Solutions available to both businesses and consumers include: Application Hosting Backup and Storage Content Delivery Databases E-Commerce Enterprise IT High Performance Computing Media Hosting On-Demand Workforce Search Engines Web Hosting Media and Entertainment Life Sciences Let’s say you run a small business that is rapidly expanding. You probably already have a basic website, and perhaps a local or national company to handle your data traffic. But when your traffic is suddenly … (1 comments)
Digital assistants like Google Assistant and Alexa, from Amazon, have a secret: they are secretly learning everything about you. They can hear your conversations, they know the tone of your voice, and they are recording it all.
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