Tag: TVs
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Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime
Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that’s infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old …
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Netflix bug that opened smart TVs to attacks is detailed, 4 years later
A bug in Netflix’s screencast protocol allowed hackers to hijack video streams and “Rickroll” unassuming victims, or worse. The bug, …
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Backdoored Android phones, TVs used for ad fraud – and worse!
A key monetization mechanism of a sophisticated series of cybercriminal operations involving backdoored off-brand mobile and CTV Android …
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Mirai Botnet Variant ‘Pandora’ Hijacks Android TVs for Cyberattacks
A Mirai botnet variant called Pandora has been observed infiltrating inexpensive Android-based TV sets and TV boxes and using them as part …
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Ads, NFTs and other badness: Pour one out for the decline of dumb TVs
In my particular lounge room sits a relic of a time long gone, a 15-year-old plasma TV that is dumb as a box of hammers, and thankfully so. …
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60 percent of Americans have smart TVs but many remain unprotected
Almost 60 percent of Americans have smart TVs in their homes, yet almost one in four do nothing to protect their smart devices. This is …
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Samsung: We will remotely brick smart TVs looted from our warehouse
Samsung is remotely bricking smart TVs it said were looted from one of its South African warehouses amid violent unrest in the nation. On …
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Samsung can remotely disable their TVs worldwide using TV Block
Samsung says that it can disable any of its Samsung TV sets remotely using TV Block, a feature built into all television products sold …
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FEMA will buzz phones, TVs and radios to test the national emergency alert system
FEMA will test its national emergency alert system later this week. …
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Chinese smart TVs caught hoovering up data about devices on customers’ networks
Millions of smart TVs in China may have collected data without the knowledge of viewers about Wi-Fi networks found within range and …
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Android TVs from top manufacturer plagued with ‘extraordinary’ flaws
Riding on this wave, TCL happens to be one such manufacturer who has become the 3rd largest in this industry, beating a lot of noteworthy …
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Who watches the watchers? Samsung does so it can fling ads at owners of its smart TVs
Samsung brags to advertisers that “first screen ads”, seen by all users of its Smart TVs when they turn on, are 100 per cent viewable, …
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