Kindle and ebook targeted by hackers: how to defend themselves? – Planet eBook

To be able to read a and -book is a good thing, because the ease of transport of player allows us to do on occasions that could make reading a paper book quite complicated or inconvenient. As long as the operation does not expose us to any risk of too much, as unfortunately is the case in recent months. Just Sept. 16 of this year, in fact, returned to peep a threat that seemed to have been wiped out a year ago, spreading concern among those who are accustomed to read ebooks .

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To give the alarm was Benjamin Daniel Mussler , a researcher who has been involved in these issues, which explained, in great detail, such as the now infamous hacker are the usual spread of traps read Kindle, poisoning codes with details script code Java. These codes would be hidden in such a way, with the aim of jeopardizing the safety of the ‘ Amazon account of the affected user.

A report imminent danger, are in particular the pop-up windows that appear suddenly on Amazon . When the action is triggered, to be affected are the functions that manage devices and content, as well as those relating to the setting of the apparatus, in the library’s own Kindle . In this way, the opening of the Kindle Store can be reached i cookies and then be transferred to and used by villains who have thought out everything. It follows that for anyone who is seen to have its data, the consequences can be extremely unpleasant.

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According Mussler, Amazon would be informed of what is happening already in November 2013, but the problem is still present, unlike what happened with Calibre , which has been welcomed his message by putting away a few hours. Of course the experts Amazon are trying to remedy the flaws of the system, but until this happens, the best thing for digital media players would be not to proceed ‘ acquire e-book of which is not absolutely certain the origin . Just the use of non-original texts may in fact turn into a Trojan horse for hackers from breaking which are on their own on the spread of a practice, that derived from the share files that you do not know the source and legitimacy to carry out raids that can lead not just minor damage to the unfortunate victims.

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Author: Dario Marchetti

A graduate in Arts at ‘La Sapienza University in Rome, with a thesis on the eastern border of Italy at the end of the First World War, he headed the working group of the company Hypermedia for the creation of the CD Rom official SS Lazio “Story of a Love,” and for the preparation of the photo on the CD Rom AS Roma. He collaborated on the magazine and portal Lazialità Notizie.it. Care two sites on the history of Italian football (www.enciclopediadelcalcio.it, and www.enciclopediagiallorossa.com) and collaborates with Planet eBook Mag BZ House, Preventivi.it, Laprevisione.

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