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Of hoodies and headphones: a spotlight on risks surrounding audio output devices

Researchers have been poking holes in our audio output devices in the name of security and privacy. They’ve found many ways our headphones can be hacked or otherwise compromised. Learn what they discovered, and how you can secure your own. Headphones, earphones, and headsets were never designed to interfere with heart devicesyet, interfere they did, yet, they did. Headphone software can be used to create a microphone and become subject to attacks as well as the software that comes with some headphone sets.”]

Source: https://blog.malwarebytes.com/101/2019/04/of-hoodies-and-headphones-a-spotlight-on-risks-surrounding-audio-output-devices/

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