5-year-old exposes Microsoft's Xbox One security flawApril 7, 2014 - 18:55 AMT PanARMENIAN.Net - Microsoft has issued a fix for an Xbox One security flaw that was brought to light by a 5-year-old boy from San Francisco. Kristoffer von Hassel discovered that he could access his father's console by inputting the space bar several times on the password verification screen. The youngster and his father, who works in computer security, reported the flaw to Microsoft and the computing giant quickly rolled out a fix. Von Hassel was included in Microsoft's Security Researcher Acknowledgements and awarded $50, four free games and a year's subscription to Xbox Live for discovering the glitch, Digital Spy reports citing ABC News. "We're always listening to our customers and thank them for bringing issues to our attention. We take security seriously at Xbox and fixed the issue as soon as we learned about it," said Microsoft in a statement. Elsewhere, Microsoft recently divulged plans for future Xbox One updates, confirming that external storage, friend notifications and Kinect improvements are in the pipeline. Top stories Yerevan will host the 2024 edition of the World Congress On Information Technology (WCIT). Rustam Badasyan said due to the lack of such regulation, the state budget is deprived of VAT revenues. Krisp’s smart noise suppression tech silences ambient sounds and isolates your voice for calls. Gurgen Khachatryan claimed that the "illegalities have been taking place in 2020." Partner news Most popular in the section | Kazakhstan welcomes Yerevan, Baku’s agreement to meet in Almaty Kassym-Jomart Tokayev has welcomed the agreement of Baku and Yerevan to hold negotiations in Almaty. Armenia offers to temporarily host, preserve Gaza manuscripts The Armenian Foreign Minister has said Yerevan is ready to help preserve manuscripts from the conflict zone in Gaza. Aliyev says no need for mediators in Armenia-Azerbaijan process Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev believes that Baku and Yerevan do not mediators in the process of normalizing relations. Aram I supports Karekin II’s “patriotic position” Catholicos of the Great House of Cilicia Aram I has expressed support for the Mother See of Holy Etchmiadzin. |