It’s hard to conceive of now, but there was a time when hacking a system was something easy enough for pretty much anyone to do. Developers were barely cognizant of the concept of security and many security holes were thought of as just minor glitches in the software. It took considerable effort from the security community to bring these security issues to the attention of vendors and it was a long road to the current level of security we have now. Having said that, the current security of software isn’t exactly perfect, but what I’m getting at is how the current security status of new things resembles the security status of old things in the ‘bad’ old days. Old vulnerabilities are new vulnerabilities again in theInternet of Things (IoT) and smart appliance space. Vulnerability types we thought were gone are now reappearing. I keep having déjà vu.
With that in mind, at this year’s Virus Bulletin conference, I presented a method for remotely attacking a Samsung smart TV and installing malicious software. While the presentation is available here, I wanted to share the details with you in this blog in case you weren’t lucky enough to join us in person in Seattle.
more here...........http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Hacking-my-smart-TV-an-old-new-thing/ba-p/6645844
With that in mind, at this year’s Virus Bulletin conference, I presented a method for remotely attacking a Samsung smart TV and installing malicious software. While the presentation is available here, I wanted to share the details with you in this blog in case you weren’t lucky enough to join us in person in Seattle.
more here...........http://h30499.www3.hp.com/t5/HP-Security-Research-Blog/Hacking-my-smart-TV-an-old-new-thing/ba-p/6645844