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39 Popular Parental Control Apps Are Secretly Feeding Data to One Overseas Server
At the Black Hat security conference, an investigation helmed by Vangelis Stykas, CTO of Kumio, and Felipe Solferini, principal AI security engineer, found that 39 seemingly separate consumer brands of parental monitoring tools all connected to the same server in China to store data. Not only did the investigation reveal that brand diversity in certain areas of the parental control market is superficial, but it also uncovered 45 distinct vulnerabilities that would allow a hacker to wiretap children’s smart devices, force-enable video monitoring, and take full control of backend servers full of sensitive data.