Friday, April 4

Xbox Live: a vulnerability discovered by a 5 year old boy



Sometimes just a little boy 5 years to discover a flaw that even Microsoft engineers have failed to find. Indeed, Kristoffer Von Hassel is 5 years old and lives in San Diego, California. He managed to connect to Xbox Live account of his father without knowing the password.

But how has he ever done ? This little boy is a genius ? Simply Kristoffer had a " lucky " when trying to connect to the account of his father , he made ​​a wrong password , but where the machine should have been denying it , she offered him enter a secondary password . Do not know either, he typed repeatedly the space bar before getting connected to the Xbox Live account of his father .

The little boy told his dad who , in turn , has put together the information to Microsoft. Kristoffer received from the giant four free games , a $ 30 credit on Xbox Live and a year of Xbox Live Gold. As a bonus, his name appears on the list of people who helped Microsoft to identify security issues in 2014. Congratulations Kévin Kristoff ! !

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