Here’s yet another reason why you don’t ever want to own a smart TV. A hacker has a proof of concept attack that allows one to take control of the TV without having physical access to it. And this attack works on up to 90% of smart TVs out there which makes it an extremely dangerous attack. You can thank Rafael Scheel of cyber security firm Oneconsult for this. He’s posted a video that you should likely watch if you own a smart TV:
Here’s my question: Will this force makers of smart TVs to up their game when it comes to security seeing as it clearly isn’t being taken seriously? We shall have to see. My guess is that this will not be top of mind for any maker of smart TVs until their TVs are subject to widespread pwnage. Then they will care.
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Smart TV’s Can Be Pwned Via Broadcast Signals
Here’s yet another reason why you don’t ever want to own a smart TV. A hacker has a proof of concept attack that allows one to take control of the TV without having physical access to it. And this attack works on up to 90% of smart TVs out there which makes it an extremely dangerous attack. You can thank Rafael Scheel of cyber security firm Oneconsult for this. He’s posted a video that you should likely watch if you own a smart TV:
Here’s my question: Will this force makers of smart TVs to up their game when it comes to security seeing as it clearly isn’t being taken seriously? We shall have to see. My guess is that this will not be top of mind for any maker of smart TVs until their TVs are subject to widespread pwnage. Then they will care.
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This entry was posted on April 3, 2017 at 1:40 pm and is filed under Commentary with tags Security. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.