Smart Speaker or Smart Snooper, maybe we whould call it "Smart Sneaker" - Forget big brother , your own pet electronics might be spying on you. Study estimates that activations of smart speakers when it wasn't you who uttered any wake word occur between 1.5 and 19 times a day. The average time of activation is 43 seconds.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/dont-worry-alexa-and-friends-only-record-you-up-to-19-times-a-day/

Attention please !! - Hackers Can Manipulate Media Files You Receive Via WhatsApp and Telegram

Dubbed "Media File Jacking," the attack leverages an already known fact that any app installed on a device can access and rewrite files saved in the external storage, including files saved by other apps installed on the same device.

Security researchers at Symantec yesterday demonstrated multiple interesting attack scenarios against WhatsApp and Telegram Android apps, which could allow malicious actors to spread fake news or scam users into sending payments to wrong accounts.

https://thehackernews.com/2019/07/media-files-whatsapp-telegram.html

Smartwatches - Not so-smart when it comes to security

No surprise here, the vendors are in business of selling watches so, why bother about security



From the article:

“We found that smartwatch communications are easily intercepted in 90 percent of cases, and 70 percent of watch firmware is transmitted without encryption,” 

All of the watches that HP evaluated collected personal data in the form of names, addresses, birth dates, weight, gender and heart rate. Yet not one of them had adequate controls in place for ensuring the privacy and security of the collected data either while on the device or in transit.

For instance, every smartwatch that HP tested was paired with a mobile interface that lacked two-factor authentication. None of the interfaces had the ability to lock out accounts after multiple failed login attempts. A significant 40 percent of the tested products used weak cyphers at the transport layer while a full 70 percent had firmware related insecurities.

For more details:
http://www.darkreading.com/endpoint/smartwatches-could-become-new-frontier-for-cyber-attackers/d/d-id/1321452