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Inteco detected a major security flaw that affects Kindle devices – ileon.com – Tour de León

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The German researcher Benjamin Mussler has discovered a security flaw that affects all Kindle devices and could cause an attacker would agree and take control of the affected user account.

Any Kindle user may have been affected if you manage your devices through the Amazon platform.

The vulnerability has been reported to Amazon and is expected this is fixed in a short period of time. However, in order to prevent this fault is recommended to avoid download eBooks from untrusted sources.

Security vulnerability in the browser default Android

This week has released a security issue that affects the default Android browser, present in about 75% of the devices. Please update your browser if no update is available, or otherwise use alternative browsers like Firefox or Chrome.

Due to this problem, if a user visited a malicious web page, an attacker would control who could access the personal data that the user had open in other browser windows and can even steal your identity.

Detected false employment offers that circulate by mail

Of the new jobs are off the hook for committing a crime. This is the phishing or fraudulent mail, using as a pretext false offers of employment to obtain private information from users who are victims of deception.

Avoid being a victim of fraud of this type following recommendations as: do not open emails from unknown users, never answering these emails, take precautions by following links in emails even if they are unknown and downloading attachments

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