Cortana voice assistant lets you in. — Research Saturday

Researchers at McAfee recently discovered code execution vulnerabilities in the default settings of the Cortana voice-activated digital assistant in Windows 10 systems. 

Steve Povolny is head of advanced threat research at McAfee and he shares their findings.

The research can be found here:

https://securingtomorrow.mcafee.com/mcafee-labs/want-to-break-into-a-locked-windows-10-device-ask-cortana-cve-2018-8140

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