Vulnerabilities in Amazon Kindle Allowed Taking Full Control of the Device

Check Point researchers reported that in April of this year, IT giant Amazon eliminated critical vulnerabilities in the Amazon Kindle. The problems could be used to gain full control over the device, allowed them to steal the Amazon device token and other confidential data stored on it. For a successful attack on a Kindle, just… Continue reading Vulnerabilities in Amazon Kindle Allowed Taking Full Control of the Device

Researcher Found Three Bugs Allowing Hacking Amazon Kindle

Researcher Yogev Bar-On from Israeli consulting firm Realmode Labs talked about his KindleDrip attack technique and three Amazon Kindle bugs (already fixed) that underlie it. For discovery of these vulnerabilities the expert received $18,000 under the bug bounty program. Let me remind you that I also talked about IS researcher earned more than $2000000 on… Continue reading Researcher Found Three Bugs Allowing Hacking Amazon Kindle