
Nick Carlini's research shows how secret YouTube commands could hijack your phone
EECS Ph.D. student Nick Carlini (advisor Prof. David Wagner) in collaboration with a team of researchers from Georgetown University are featured in a number of news articles. They have revealed how secret commands could use voice-control tools like Siri and Google Now to take over your smartphone without your knowledge. They ran a series of tests to see just how easily these assistants could be tricked.
- PC World: Here's how secret voice commands could hijack your smartphone
- Inverse.com: Researchers Reveal How Secret Commands Could Hijack Siri
- Toms Guide: Demonic Garbled Voices Can Hijack Smartphones
- International Business Times (UK): Secret voice commands hidden in YouTube videos could hijack your smartphone
- InsideHook.com: "Hidden" Voice Commands Are Coming to Attack Your Smartphone
- The Register: Drowning Dalek commands Siri in voice-rec hack attack Boffins embed barely-audible-to-humans commands inside vids
- BBC.com (UK): 'Dalek' commands can hijack smartphones