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Some Smart TVs Can Be Compromised By Untraceable Attacks

10
Jun
2014

A fresh exploit has been uncovered in smart TVs featuring support for the Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) standard that permits launching Internet content on the TV.Yossef Oren and Angelos Keromytis at the Columbia University Network Security Labdiscovered that the devices are susceptible to untraceable attacks that can last for as long as the TV is turned on.The attack has been dubbed Red Button because thats what you need to press in order to access the onlin…

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