Magic Kinder is an application developed Magic Group , a subsidiary of Ferrero International , which consists essentially in a gaming software dedicated to children and that includes also a kind of social network named family Diary: in this social the kids networks have the ability to share photos and messages with family and friends, then in logic a small group, but something did not go as planned.
app child at risk security and invasion of privacy.
an Italian computer expert team has indeed discovered a flaw that made vulnerable chat Magic Kinder .
If the creation of Magic Kinder has allowed parents to rest easy and relieve the itch of their small, increasingly eager to join Facebook or Twitter, the discovery of a flaw in the app quickly He woke up the parental universe, showing that not always be sure all that glitters. The discovery was made by Italian researcher Maximum Draft , after the granddaughter asked him to install the app on his smartphone: he realized that it was also possible to sign up with false data. Magic Kinder is available on the App Store and Google Play Store.
The case of Kinder, however, is just the latest of many, a cause for concern because to be at risk are child .
a similar situation, but the most serious results, it happened to the Chinese manufacturer of gadgets and tech toys for child VTech which saw violate almost 5 million account of parents and the data of almost 6.3 million child .
in short, any person armed with bad intentions , could easily have sneak into the platform by registering with false personal data and spy so the content and shared photos from child , view, edit or pick them up, with consequences that would naturally picture been highly unpleasant.
Very often neglected, preferring to pay attention to those considered important and essential for the user adult , but the app store our smartphones are lots of applications designed for the world of childhood, and are utilizzatissime by our child , which by the way do not even have the necessary skills to defend themselves from attack hacker .
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