A ‘HIGH severity’ app blunder put Ring doorbell video recordings at risk, it’s been revealed. Tech giant Amazon quietly updated the Ring app for Android in May to fix the security…
If someone had managed to exploit it, victims would need to be tricked into installing a malicious app first.
Only then would a hacker be able to get hold of tiny files known as authentication cookies, which keep you logged in constantly instead of requiringOnce a cyber spy obtains these, they can root around in a person's account without needing the password and can take any personal data stored on it, including video recordings.
"We issued a fix for supported Android customers on May 27, 2022, soon after the researchers' submission was processed," Amazon said."This issue would be extremely difficult for anyone to exploit, because it requires an unlikely and complex set of circumstances to execute."
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