a few days ago, Magic Kinder – the application developed by Ferrero International to entertain children – was significantly exposed to the intrusion by the hacker because of a flaw detected by a computer expert, within the security system. The error has been corrected in updates of the app for Android and iOS over the last few hours.
Ferrero has thought of making “ company “even the little that a separate platform, called” family Diary “, through which children can share messages and pictures with friends and family throughout the day. In fact, downloading Magic Kinder can be done by app store Apple and Google, as it does for all applications of the “ adult .”
In an entirely fortuitous, Massimo Draft – Italian researcher – he has discovered that sensitive data processed by the social networks were not protected from a possible external depredation. By installing the application on their smartphone to play her granddaughter, Draft identified, immediately, a computer flaw that made it vulnerable all content shared by small users. To deal with this very serious disattenzone by Ferrero, the experts had to make an application update that has, as a result, the system’s network safely put that, until then, had turned out to dell’hackeraggio mercy.
For a long time, Magic Kinder Ferrero was advertised on the site and declared as a secure platform, as monitored by parents. The children were able to enter information through a private access, allowed only the legitimate owners of the smartphone. Still, no one had realized that this preventive intervention had virtually inultile: because of the flaw, in fact, millions of small users have been exposed to the intervention of attackers that they could take possession of their files, naively, uploaded to the social network “ Family Diary . “
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