Just in time for the holiday season, there is a new threat to your privacy and comes in attractive packaging such - high tech toys for kids. While it is common to hear about a security breach with a corporate network, personal computer, or a mobile device, more and more technological toys are emerging on the market and it is important be aware of the risks of privacy involved with them.
Hello Barbie
vulnerabilities in the application of mobile and cloud storage used by the doll smart would have allowed hackers to spy even more intimate session, the game.
Hello Barbie from Mattel is one of these toys and the first to "answer" a growing trend of high-tech toys that are connected to the Internet. Hello Barbie has a microphone, speakers, a speech recognition software and uses its Wi-Fi connection to send the children say the Internet to be processed and analyzed. The doll then gives personalized answers using artificial intelligence, ultimately engaging a child in a two-way conversation.
If you think a talking doll is creeping, which the campaign activist group for childhood without advertising certainly does, which is creepier is recent results reported in the Washington Post of vulnerabilities found in applications mobile storage and cloud Hello Barbie. The vulnerabilities could allow hackers to spy on the conversations of the children with their new toy trust.
Not only the campaign for a childhood without advertising Hello find Barbie 'scary', but they have also begun a protest against the doll called #HellNoBarbie, insisting that the new Barbie could be used as a tool marketing, due to the fact that records the voice of the child and sends the audio file on the Internet.
VTech Kid Connect
A statement from VTech confirms that the leaked data included the names of children , sex and date of birth. data on stolen adults included the name, postal address, email address, password recovery questions, the IP address and passwords.
The Washington Post story about hackable Hello Barbie was released shortly after one of the largest toy manufacturers in the world, VTech has been compromised by a security breach that affected about 6 million children and relatives 5 million accounts. Toys VTech Kid Connect using a program allowing children to talk to their parents and to download content. The VTech hacker was able to steal the names, email addresses, gender and children's birth dates, photos of victims and addresses, even physical!
What makes children's toys technology so risky is that toy companies are not as keen on the security issues that companies where the whole business revolves around data and technology. And when it comes to the majority of parents who purchase these toys, safety input data is not at the forefront of their minds.
In theory, technological toys are no different than any electronic device that is connected to the Internet. As a parent, you can protect your family by being aware of the risks, to stay abreast of what is happening in the world of toys connected to the Internet and understanding of the technology that is involved.
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