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Some hidden codes in books of dubious origin may give access to your Amazon account
When you come across a link that refers to an e-book for Kindle that is not on Amazon, make sure it does not come from some website ambiguous, before click “download” or “submit” reports Engadget. Benjamin Daniel Musser is a researcher who is responsible for security and found that the page “Manage Your Kindle” contains a flaw that hackers can use to hide malicious code or malware. In this way, if you click on the links corrupted, hackers can access your cookies and then the credentials of your Amazon account.
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THE FLAW – Musser has discovered the flaw in October of last year, Amazon it was occupied to resolve the matter shortly after the alert, but the problem came back after the date nature of the page “Manage Your Kindle”. However, the security expert believes that to come across broken links is easily avoidable until you download e-book pirate from unknown websites. In addition to Kindle, another product Amazon has come under the magnifying glass for a security issue. Audible, the audiobook serivizo of the company, would apparently allow users to use fake emails and fake credit card numbers to download the file they want. However, a spokesman for Audible stressed that transactions with fake credit cards were closed quickly and that the service is taking seriously the computer fraud.
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