Sunday, April 10, 2016

Magic Kinder: exposed to risk millions of photos and data in the app dedicated to children – Blasting News

Magic Kinder , the app for children of the Ferrero , it was discovered a hole in its security . The mistake was made known by a group of Italian experts, according to whom, the chat appeared at risk hacker intrusion , until a few days ago. The Magic Kinder is a apps developed by the subsidiary of the Ferrero International Magic Group. The game is dedicated to our youngest users in which there is a kind of social network called “ Family Diary “, where children can share photos and messages with friends and family.



The app Children danger hacker: millions at risk of minor

It was discovered, by computer scientists that the virtual space of ‘children’s application Magic Kinder it was not protected by a private access, as it should have been. The information shared on this platform from small users, were then exposed to hacker risk . To Magic Kinder can be downloaded from the Apple and Google , has been necessitated a sudden update to remedy the lack of network security . Any attacker, with a minimum of computer experience, before updating the application, you would be able to introduce to view and edit shared content by children.



A computer flaw in the app for Magic Kids Kinder

the discovery of computer flaw in the app Magic Kinder has been made by the Italian researcher Massimo Draft and was made out of pure If, later, the clamor for his grandaughter of the installation of the apps on its smartphones. Bozza was immediately realized that it was possible to register on the platform dedicated to children also by inserting false representation of age. L ‘ app Magic Konder was advertised on its site as a safe space for children through a total control of its use by parents. Data entry, by children, were secured with a permitted private access only to parents. But unfortunately for millions of users, so it was not. Now the computer flaw was corrected by rapid updates of the app for Android and iOS took place these days.

LikeTweet

No comments:

Post a Comment