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A Portland family contacted Amazon to investigate after they say a private conversation in their home was recorded by Amazon’s Alexa — the voice-controlled smart speaker — and that the recorded audio was sent to the phone of a random person in Seattle, who was in the family’s contact list. Source: Woman says her Amazon device recorded private conversation, sent it out to random contact

The Z-Wave wireless communications protocol used for some IoT/smart devices is vulnerable to a downgrade attack that can allow a malicious party to intercept and tamper with traffic between smart devices. Source: Z-Shave Attack Could Impact Over 100 Million IoT Devices

Members of the Culinary Union, who work in many of the city’s biggest casinos, have voted to approve a strike unless a deal is reached soon. Source: Robot worries could cause a 50,000-worker strike in Las Vegas

Turning off remote content loading is supposed to mitigate against an attack known as EFAIL, which can steal encrypted messages. But the attack can still happen even if you do this. Source: In Apple Mail, There’s No Protecting PGP-Encrypted Messages

Cisco researchers discover a new router malware outbreak that might also be the next cyberwar attack in Ukraine. Source: Stealthy, Destructive Malware Infects Half a Million Routers