Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal is fueling the debate over how to protect digital information. One hacker from Texas is also raising awareness about growing cyber threats. And he's only 12 years old. Reuben Paul is a sixth grader from Austin. The self-proclaimed "Cyber Ninja" has a second-degree black belt in kung fu, and he's on a mission to show how hacking is child's play. Paul hacks household items to demonstrate how they can be exploited to spy on or even harm people, such as turning "smart toys" into listening devices.
He says that the Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connections that we use almost every day are extremely vulnerable to hacking. "I'll never connect to a public Wi-Fi that I don't know," he said. "Somebody can just hack into that Wi-Fi network and poison it." He showed CBS News correspondent David Begnaud firsthand how a hacker's poison can spread through a Wi-Fi signal. In just seconds he obtained the reporter's Twitter username and password using a fake page he had cloned, after Begnaud connected to his public Wi-Fi network.
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