{"id":123793,"date":"2021-06-14T08:22:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/amazon-sidewalk-could-raise-your-wifi-bill-cybersecurity-expert-says"},"modified":"2021-06-14T08:22:55","modified_gmt":"2021-06-14T15:22:55","slug":"amazon-sidewalk-could-raise-your-wifi-bill-cybersecurity-expert-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/06\/amazon-sidewalk-could-raise-your-wifi-bill-cybersecurity-expert-says","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Sidewalk could raise your Wifi bill cybersecurity, expert says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/amazon-sidewalk-could-raise-your-wifi-bill-cybersecurity-expert-says.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>LYNCHBURG, Va (WSET) \u2014 Strangers may soon be able to use your Wi-Fi \u2014 It\u2019s all through Amazon Sidewalk.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s an internet-sharing network for Amazon Echo, Ring and Tile devices. Officials say it\u2019s a way to use WiFi from neighboring homes that also have Amazon products.<\/p>\n<p>Randy Marchany a cybersecurity expert with Virginia Tech feels this is <a href=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/nation-world\/amazon-internet-sharing-security-concerns-are-certainly-there-says-expert\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/wset.com\/news\/nation-world\/amazon-internet-sharing-security-concerns-are-certainly-there-says-expert\" class=\"\">another way to collect information<\/a>. He says it\u2019s specifically picking up on user habits and whereabouts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LYNCHBURG, Va (WSET) \u2014 Strangers may soon be able to use your Wi-Fi \u2014 It\u2019s all through Amazon Sidewalk. It\u2019s an internet-sharing network for Amazon Echo, Ring and Tile devices. Officials say it\u2019s a way to use WiFi from neighboring homes that also have Amazon products. Randy Marchany a cybersecurity expert with Virginia Tech feels [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,15,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-habitats","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}