The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has found the Dragon Touch KidzPad Y88X 10, a child-friendly tablet on Amazon, contains outdated parental control app KIDOZ, preinstalled riskware and Corejava malware. It exposed device-specific information to potentially be sent over insecure web requests which could be exploited by hackers. Other models of the device are still available. Efforts are needed to tackle the increasing cybersecurity risks, particularly those aimed at children.
Ways to ward off hackers
Jeffrey Bowie was arrested for trying to install malware into computers at SSM St. Anthony’s Hospital, Oklahoma City. Tech consulting firm Coffey & Consult noted
