<ul><li><keyword id="4466962" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="smart-speakers">Smart speakers</keyword> can hear commands inaudible to humans.</li><li>Secret messages can be used to make calls and unlock doors. </li><li>Researchers in China call the technique, 'Dolphin Attack'.</li></ul><keyword id="196611" type="COMPANY" weightage="20" keywordseo="Alexa">Alexa</keyword>, <keyword id="23114" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Siri">Siri</keyword> and the <keyword id="961840" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Google-assistant">Google Assistant</keyword> can hear audio frequencies humans can’t. And they can also hear commands in these frequencies that we can’t. Researchers have stumbled upon the fact that digital assistants can be manipulated using white noise and commands that the human ear doesn’t register. Research teams in China as well as the US have been able to secretly activate the AI systems on smartphones and smart speakers. Once activated, the university labs have dialed phone numbers and opened websites. Nonetheless, the technology could be used for darker ambitions like unlocking doors, wire money or shop online. Researchers Nicholas Carlini and David Wagner spoke to <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/technology/alexa-siri-hidden-command-audio-attacks.html">The New York Times</a> about how they embedded the secret message, “OK Google, browse to evil.com,” in seemingly harmless sentence as well as in a short video of Verdi’s ‘Requiem’. Both times, Mozilla’s open-source software was fooled. Carlini stated, “We want to demonstrate that it’s possible, and then hope that other people will say, ‘’Okay this is possible, now let’s try and fix it.’” Researches in China call the technique ‘<keyword id="6519050" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="20" keywordseo="dolphinattack">DolphinAttack</keyword>’. They’ve used it to instruct smart devices to visit malicious sites, initiate calls, click pictures and send messages. Currently, the scope of the DolphinAttack is limited but the University of Illinois has already demonstrated what ultrasound attacks from 25 feet away are capable of. During the Urabana-Champaign, they showed that though commands couldn’t yet penetrate walls, they still had the potential to control smart devices through open windows in buildings. In response to the article by the American publication, all three companies have lent assurances that their smart speakers are secure. Specifically with respect to the <keyword id="4616620" type="PERSON" weightage="20" keywordseo="Apple-HomePod">Apple Homepod</keyword>, the device has been designed to “prevent commands from doing things like unlocking doors.” If anyone remembers the Superbowl Amazon ad for earlier this year, it illustrates how Amazon is already aware of such a function. They designed their ad in such a way that Alexa speakers at home with viewers wouldn't respond even though Alexa was uttered nearly 10 different time during the ad spot. In fact, Amazon filed a patent back in 2014 called, "Audible Command Filtering," that describes different techniques to prevent Alexa from waking up. Security risks have been a <a href="https://www.wired.com/story/elaborate-hack-shows-damage-iot-bugs-can-do/">continuous</a> concern when it comes to the Internet of Technology (IoT). Nonetheless, this highlights an issue that could pose of an obstacle in the future. It’s a fair warning to companies designing digital assistant to get out in front of the problem rather than be reactionary.

Attackers can use audio frequencies beyond human hearing to exploit smart speakers

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Video footage shows a dolphin at <keyword id="11915963" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="miami" source="Orion">Miami</keyword> Seaquarium attacking a trainer last weekend.</li><li>A former veterinarian at the Seaquarium told local media that this was not an isolated incident.</li></ul>An audience member captured on camera the moment a dolphin turned violent and attacked a trainer last weekend at Miami Seaquarium.Video footage of the incident, <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@scphoto_ky/video/7084662954309897518?_r=1&amp;_t=8RQTHIizbL4&amp;social_sharing=v1">shared on TikTok</a>, shows the trainer struggling to stay afloat as the dolphin, Sundance, drags her beneath the water.<blockquote class="tiktok-embed" cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@scphoto_ky/video/7084662954309897518" data-video-id="7084662954309897518" style="max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;"> <section> <a target="_blank" title="@scphoto_ky" href="https://www.tiktok.com/@scphoto_ky">@scphoto_ky</a> A dolphin trainer was just attacked by Flipper. Police just arrived. :( <a title="dolphinattack" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/dolphinattack">#dolphinattack</a> <a title="miami" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/miami">#miami</a> <a title="seaquarium" target="_blank" href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/seaquarium">#seaquarium</a> <a target="_blank" title="♬ original sound - SCPhoto_KY" href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/original-sound-7084662962320919338">♬ original sound - SCPhoto_KY</a> </section> </blockquote> Sundance, who has lived in captivity at <a href="https://miamiseaquarium.com/">Miami Seaquarium</a> for his entire life, can then be seen ramming the trainer towards the pool's edge.The trainer was taken by ambulance to a local hospital, according to <a href="https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/04/12/caught-on-camera-dolphin-attacks-trainer-during-show-at-miami-seaquarium/">Local10.com. </a>Miami-Dade safety authorities were contacted as a precaution, the media outlet said, but the trainer did not appear to suffer any serious injuries.<a href="https://www.facebook.com/shannoncarpenterphotography/?fbclid=IwAR3HSwPnXXEkbUFErAM403YzB4aQTP7rqwC20QuWn-UG2DpcVo0HdPuwFt4">Photographer Shannon Carpenter, from Kentucky,</a> who filmed the episode, was visiting the show with her family when the dolphin appeared to become aggressive. "The kids were cheering and thinking this was neat. You could tell the adults knew something was wrong," she said, <a href="https://nypost.com/2022/04/12/dolphin-assaults-trainer-in-front-of-crowd-at-miami-show/">per the New York Post.</a>Miami Seaquarium did not respond to Insider's request for comment, but according to a statement provided to <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dolphin-attacks-trainer-miami-seaquarium-video/">CBS News</a>, an investigation concluded that the trainer had accidentally scratched the dolphin."A dolphin and trainer accidentally collided in the water on Saturday while performing a routine behavior as part of the Flipper Show. This was an uncomfortable interaction for both of them and the dolphin reacted by breaking away from the routine and striking the trainer," the statement said.The dolphin was also not injured, per CBS <keyword id="11893589" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="100" keywordseo="news" source="Orion">News</keyword>.Jenna Wallace, a veterinarian who formerly worked at Miami Seaquarium, <a href="https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/04/12/recent-dolphin-attack-at-miami-seaquarium-not-an-isolated-incident-former-veterinarian-says/">told Local10.com</a> that she believes it was not an isolated incident."I have been told by previous veterinarians and staff that this animal had rammed another trainer in the abdomen," Wallace told the media outlet."When <keyword id="12786509" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="dolphins" source="Orion">dolphins</keyword> become aggressive like this, there's always some underlying thing," she continued.Animal rights organization PETA denounced the "exploitation of dolphins" at Miami Seaquarium in a statement published on Tuesday."Time is up for the Miami Seaquarium, where long-suffering dolphins desperately need protection and workers are at risk," said the organization's general counsel for animal law Jared Goodman."PETA urges this abusement park to end its exploitation of dolphins by getting them to sanctuaries as quickly as possible so that they'd never be used in tawdry shows again and no one else would get hurt," the statement continued.Miami Seaquarium was <a href="https://www.local10.com/news/local/2022/02/22/usda-inspectors-back-at-miami-seaquarium-with-final-report-expected-this-week/">cited for numerous animal welfare violations</a> in a <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21093920-miami-seaquarium-inspection-report">17-page report</a> by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) last June.The report mentioned the feeding of rotten fish to animals, dolphins dying, pools being in disrepair, and inadequate care for the animals.The Miami Seaquarium is also home to the orca Lolita who has been performing for audiences for 52 years. She has become the focus of a campaign to release her from her orca tank, the world's smallest, into a sea sanctuary in her native northeast Pacific, reported <a href="https://www.euronews.com/green/2022/03/22/50-years-in-the-world-s-smallest-orca-tank-will-lolita-finally-be-freed">euronews. </a>

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Attackers can use audio frequencies beyond human hearing to exploit smart speakers

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Dolphin attacks trainer and drags her under water during show at controversial Miami Seaquarium, video shows

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