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Tuesday, September 16, 2014

Free ebooks warning: Pirates ‘can hack into Amazon accounts’

Pirating ebooks is not just bad for the publishing industry: free ebooks available online can also be used to hack into Amazon accounts via the retail giant’s ‘Manage Your Kindle’ page, used to deliver ebook files to Kindle Readers, according to researcher Benjamin Daniel Mussler.
Mussler writes that simply changing the title of the free ebooks allows attackers to execute code when a victim opens the ‘Kindle Library’ page in a web browser, The Digital Reader reports


Free ebooks warning: Pirates ‘can hack into Amazon accounts’

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