Video: Watch Windows 10 Hack Steal Passwords And Photos By Abusing Cortana

Benevolent hackers found a smart way around Windows 10's Cortana voice assistant. Microsoft last week issued a patch to Windows 10 machines for a vulnerability that allowed hackers to use Cortana voice commands to sneak past the operating system's lock screen protections. But just what could hackers have done, and what could they still do to unpatched machines? In videos put together for Forbes, Israeli researchers from the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology showed what was possible, whether it was executing a program or viewing a private document (such as a list of passwords) from behind the lockscreen, proving just how problematic Microsoft's Cortana can be. The weakness was found separately by McAfee researchers, and Yuval Ron and Ron Marcovich, software engineering students at the Technion Israeli Institute of Technology, as part of a project overseen by independent security researchers Amichai Shulman and Tal Be'ery.