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Research: Alexa Devices Vulnerable to Hacking

Virtual assistants and IoT devices are inherently vulnerable to cyber attacks, including Alexa devices, according to Check Point.

August 13, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

New research from Check Point suggests that Alexa is not as secure as we thought. Alexa, Amazon’s virtual assistant which is becoming a larger presence in the enterprise, is not immune to outside attacks because its subdomains are vulnerable to Corss-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) misconfiguration and Cross Site Scripting, Check Point researchers wrote. “Using the […]

Report: Regional Accents Affect Intelligent Virtual Assistants

A recently published report suggests that regional accents may affect the speech recognition ability of virtual assistants like Alexa, Google Assistant and others.

July 28, 2020 TD Staff Leave a Comment

If someone has ever asked what time the Bruins’ game was at the “Gahden” to intelligent virtual assistants like Alexa, Siri, Cortana or Google Assistant and gotten an odd response, the regional accent could be the problem. The U.S. has a range of accents that include the famous “Boston” accent, which people imitate by saying, […]

Are Public Cloud Customers Scared of Spot Instances?

Spot instances are a type of purchasing option that allows users to take advantage of spare capacity at a low price. Why aren't more taking advantage?

July 16, 2020 Jay Chapel Leave a Comment

Spot instances and similar “spare capacity” models are a great way to save money on public cloud. But a surprising amount of cloud customers are not taking advantage of this discounted capacity. Spot instances are a type of purchasing option that allows users to take advantage of spare capacity at a low price, with the […]

AWS Announces General Availability of AWS IoT SiteWise

Amazon Web Services has officially launched AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service platform for industrial customers that collects data from the plant floor to generate real-time metrics to aid in decision making.

July 10, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Amazon Web Services has officially launched AWS IoT SiteWise, a managed service platform for industrial customers that collects data from the plant floor to generate real-time metrics to aid in decision making. The service is geared toward industrial companies like manufacturers, energy utilities and food processes who want to use their equipment data to make […]

Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service Makes Zoom Rooms More Affordable

Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS) gives Zoom Rooms customers the ability to deploy Zoom Rooms hardware with a variety of subscription options.

July 8, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Zoom is introduced a hardware-as-a-service plan that makes deploying Zoom Rooms more accessible by reducing the barriers to entry and high up-front costs. The program, dubbed Zoom Hardware-as-a-Service (HaaS), gives Zoom Rooms customers the ability to deploy Zoom Rooms hardware with a variety of subscription options for phone and meeting room hardware, the company says […]

The Death of Guardzilla Suggests DIY Security is Still Too Risky

June 29, 2020 Steve Karantzoulidis Leave a Comment

There are far, far too many defunct DIY security companies and products. Guardzilla is the latest. The company, which offered a lineup of DIY security cameras with a live 360° view, appears to have gone out of business. Guardzilla’s homepage is now blank except for a message that reads, “We deeply regret that these troubling times have […]

Salesforce Launches Einstein Recommendations for Trailhead

Salesforce has launched Einstein Recommendations for Trailhead, bringing artificial intelligence-powered learning to the company’s online learning platform.  

June 25, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Salesforce has launched Einstein Recommendations for Trailhead, bringing artificial intelligence-powered learning to the company’s online learning platform. The addition of Einstein-powered recommendations comes as Salesforce launches a series of new productivity tools that aim to make the building apps on the platform easier. “COVID-19’s rapid acceleration of digital transformation has disrupted the workforce and made […]

Boston Becomes Latest City to Ban Facial Recognition

Boston just became the second largest community in the world to ban the use of facial recognition surveillance technology.

June 24, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Facial recognition is being floated as a technology that could help in the wake of the coronavirus, but some major cities aren’t sold on the technology. Now, you can add Boston to that list. The capital of Massachusetts just became the second largest community in the world to ban the use of facial recognition surveillance […]

AWS Says it Mitigated Largest Ever DDoS Attack in February

Amazon Web Services said it stopped a massive mid-February DDoS attack which some are calling the largest ever recorded DDoS attack.

June 18, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Amazon Web Services said it stopped a massive mid-February DDoS attack, the largest ever recorded, according to some media reports. In a Q1 AWS Shield threat landscape report, the company disclosed web attacks that were prevented and mitigated by AWS Shield, Amazon’s cybersecurity service. The targeted customer wasn’t identified in the report, but AWS said […]

Lifesize Brings Alexa for Business to Meeting Rooms for Hands-Free Conferencing

Lifesize's new integration with Alexa for Business is a play designed to help organizations use conference rooms after the coronavirus-induced lockdown.

June 9, 2020 Zachary Comeau Leave a Comment

Video and audio communications solution provider Lifesize has announced a new native integration with Alexa for Business, bringing Amazon Web Services’ (AWS) intelligent assistant to the conference room in a play designed to help offices reopen with hands-free technology after the coronavirus-induced lockdown. The integration – which Lifesize says is an industry first – brings a […]