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Facebook's Cambridge Analytica scandal is
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fueling the debate over how
to protect digital information.
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One hacker from Texas is also raising
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awareness about growing cyber threats,
and he's only twelve years old.
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Reuben Paul is a 6th grader from Austin.
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He hacks household items to demonstrate
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how they can be exploited to spy on or
even harm people.
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David Beg now recently met the self
proclaimed cyber Ninja who showed him how
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smart toys can be turned
into listening devices.
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Hi,
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everybody.
Ruben Paul is twelve years old,
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and he's helping to lead
the conversation on cybersecurity.
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Pretty presenting in the Netherlands
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shoot advising a tech
conference in Singapore.
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That was an amazing presentation.
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And wowing, a crowd full
of executives in Texas.
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It is important that we need to reinvent
cybersecurity because obviously what we
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have invested so far is
clearly not working.
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This cyber Ninja, as he calls himself,
has a second degree black belt in Kung Fu,
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and he's on a mission to show
how hacking is child's plane.
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If a twelve year old can do it,
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what makes it that somebody is a skilled,
actual cyber terrorist?
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What makes it that they can't do it?
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This Bluetooth is going into new
autonomous cars, autonomous drones.
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It's going into medical devices.
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Paul says that the Bluetooth and WiFi
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connections that we use almost every day
are extremely vulnerable to hacking.
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I'll never connect to a public
WiFi that I don't know.
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Really.
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Somebody can just hack
into that WiFi network and poison.
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He showed me firsthand how a hacker's
poison can spread from a Wi Fi signal.
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I successfully know your password. How do
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you know my hacked you?
Your login was David Comes?
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Yeah, let's bleep that out.
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Wow.
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So call me Gullible.
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You got me.
It took seconds.
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He had my Twitter username and password
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using a fake page that he'd cloned after
I connected to his public WiFi network.
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It's that easy.
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So in other words, if I was sitting at a
Starbucks, I went to sign in to Twitter.
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I put it in.
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They got it.
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Now.
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Staying in touch is easy and fun.
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Paul also hacked Cloud Pets Teddy Bear.
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It uses Bluetooth technology,
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allowing traveling parents to send
messages back to their kids.
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What did you do that turns
that into a threat.
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Without any notification or any
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knowledge of the user,
I could turn it on from my computer,
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which only has to be in a 30 foot radius
of the bear, so I could stand outside.
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Someone crazy.
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He turned the bear into a
secret recording device.
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How do you get his name?
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Be? Who's the smartest one in the family?
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The Paul family of four is hopeful
about the future of cyber security.
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Ruben's parents, mono and Sanguita,
both work in technology,
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and his six year old brother, ETA,
is even joining him on stage.
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Now, can you show us this?
Sure.
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I talked to another ask when they
shine at it and liking what they do.
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It gives you a feeling of contentment
with Ruben speaking at these conferences
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and being paid thousands of dollars
to travel there and sometimes the speakers
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fee. Do you worry that it gets a little
out of control for a twelve year old
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from the kids to it because
they have a passion for right?
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It it should never become a job for them.
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So if tomorrow they come back and they
say, I'm not interested in doing this.
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It'S perfectly fine with my wife and I
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Reuben says in the future.
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He wants to work for the NSA or the FBI,
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protecting the country against
foreign and domestic cyber threats.
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Has anyone called you? I feel like
they should be recruiting you now.
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I've had some offers from the government
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of the Netherlands and even
the Department of Defense.
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Did you tell him what I
got to graduate first?
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Yeah.
I want to get done with 6th grade first.
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Before I start thinking about job
for CBS this Morning.
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I'm David Beck now.
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And the child shall lead them.
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We reached out to Cloud Pets
and Spiral Toys.
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The companies behind the Teddy bear
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that Paul hacked neither responded to our
requests for comment on its website.
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Cloud Pets says users acknowledge
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the company may capture audio recordings
and that it may use or store
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the recordings and the data
contained within them.
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Paul set up a nonprofit to create videos
that teach people about cyber dangers.
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He hopes to one day
study at Caltech or MIT.
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And he also aspires to be
an Olympic gymnast.
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That's a busy guy.
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Well, the NSA.
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Maybe a phone call away for him, right.
That rare.
Nsa Olympic gymnast to double
majors you never know.
