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Valentino Ricotta, an engineering analyst at Thales, gave a presentation during the conference where he created a malicious ebook that enabled him to exploit loopholes in the data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomsguide.com/tag/amazon-kindle” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomsguide.com/tag/amazon-kindle”>Kindle. After downloading the book to a Kindle, he was able to access the…
