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Are kids’ connected toys secure enough?

By Kathryn Rattigan on February 8, 2016
Posted in Children's Privacy

If the Hello Barbie complaints weren’t enough, now it has been announced that researchers determined that the kids’ toys, the Fisher-Price Smart Toy Bear and the hereO GPS watch, had some serious security vulnerabilities.  The Smart Toy Bear’s backend programming used unsecured application programming interfaces (APIs) to allow portions of software code to interact. Sounds…

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