Security Researcher Found Critical Kindle Vulnerabilities That Allowed Hijacking Amazon Accounts

The Black Hat Europe hacker conference in London included a session titled "Don't Judge an Audiobook by Its Cover" about a two critical (and now fixed) flaws in Amazon's Kindle. The Times reports both flaws were discovered by engineering analyst Valentino Ricotta (from the cybersecurity research division of Thales), who was awarded a "bug bounty" of $20,000 (£15,000 ).He said: "What especially struck me with this device, that's been sitting on my bedside table for years, is that it's conne