Android-Based Sony Smart-TVs Open to Image Pilfering

Two vulnerabilities in Android-based smart-TVs from Sony, including the flagship Bravia line, could allow attackers to access WiFi passwords and images stored on the devices. The bugs exist in the Photo Sharing Plus feature of Sony smart-TVs going back to 2015. They were uncovered by xen1thLabs i...

This Week in Security News: Spyware and Data Breaches

Welcome to our weekly roundup, where we share what you need to know about the cybersecurity news and events that happened over the past few days. This week, learn about a spyware that disguised itself as an Android application to gather information from users. Also, find out the biggest global da...

Hackers Hijack Smart TVs to Promote PewDiePie

UPDATE Hackers are taking advantage of vulnerable Chromecast and Google Home devices to display messages on consumer TVs promoting well-known YouTube star PewDiePie. Click to Expand Once hacked, the TVs display a message saying: “Public Service Announcement PewDiePie, the number 1 subscribed...

Researcher Claims Samsung's Tizen OS is Poorly Programmed; Contains 27,000 Bugs!

A researcher has claimed that Samsung's Tizen operating system that runs on millions of Samsung products is so poorly programmed that it could contain nearly 27,000 programming errors, which could also lead to thousands of vulnerabilities. Tizen is a Linux-based open-source operating system backe...

The operating system found 40 0day vulnerabilities, Samsung developers what the hell are you doing? - Vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Event overview Tizen is Samsung's ownoperating system, currently millions of Samsung products are installed to thisoperating system, but a security researcher recently in the Tizen system The found forty-one previously undiscovered 0day vulnerabilities. Just last month, the Wikileaks leak of CIA...

Samsung Tizen Security 'Feels like 2005'

SINT MAARTEN—Samsung’s Tizen operating system, a strategic stronghold for the company as it attempts to grow its line of homegrown mobile devices, isn’t such a vanguard when it comes to security. An independent researcher has discovered dozens of vulnerabilities in the OS that puts devices such a...

CVE-2015-5729

The Soft Access Point AP feature in Samsung Smart TVs X10P, X12, X14H, X14J, and NT14U and Xpress M288OFW printers generate weak WPA2 PSK keys, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or bypass authentication via a brute-force attack...

Authentication flaw

The Soft Access Point AP feature in Samsung Smart TVs X10P, X12, X14H, X14J, and NT14U and Xpress M288OFW printers generate weak WPA2 PSK keys, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or bypass authentication via a brute-force attack...

CVE-2015-5729

The Soft Access Point AP feature in Samsung Smart TVs X10P, X12, X14H, X14J, and NT14U and Xpress M288OFW printers generate weak WPA2 PSK keys, which makes it easier for remote attackers to obtain sensitive information or bypass authentication via a brute-force attack...

CVE-2015-5729

The CVE-2015-5729 entry describes a vulnerability in Samsung Smart TVs (models X10P, X12, X14H, X14J, NT14U) and Xpress M288OFW printers where the Soft Access Point WPA2-PSK keys are weak and can be brute-forced, enabling an attacker to obtain sensitive information or bypass authentication over a...

WikiLeaks Exposed CIA's Hacking Tools And Capabilities Details

WikiLeaks has published a massive trove of confidential documents in what appear to be the biggest ever leak involving the US Central Intelligence Agency CIA. WikiLeaks announced series Year Zero, under which the whistleblower organization will reveal details of the CIA's global covert hacking...

libupnp vulnerability attributed to affect a large number of intelligent system devices-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

! The current trend of technology Trend Micro released a report display, the portable UPnP device SDK which there is a 3 year-old security vulnerability, this is called libupnp vulnerability, appeared in millions of Smart TVs, smartphones and routers. The vulnerability is more widely Even more...

Serious, Yet Patched Flaw Exposes 6.1 Million IoT, Mobile Devices to Remote Code Execution

As much as you protect your electronics from being hacked, hackers are clever enough at finding new ways to get into your devices. But, you would hope that once a flaw discovered it would at least be fixed in few days or weeks, but that's not always the case. A three-year-old security vulnerabili...

Red Button Attack Could Compromise Smart TVs

A vulnerability in an emerging interactive television standard could expose smart TVs to untraceable drive-by hacking attacks that could steal personal information and wreak havoc on televisions and anything connected to them. The feature, HbbTV, Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Television was introduc...

Network Enabled Samsung TVs vulnerable to Denial of Service Attack

+Attack.png A vulnerability in the latest firmware of the network-enabled Samsung TV models allows potential attackers to crash the vulnerable devices using Denial of Service DoS Attack, according to security researcher Malik Mesellem. According to Malik, The web server DMCRUIS/0.1 installed on...

Network Enabled Samsung TVs vulnerable to Denial of Service Attack

+Attack.png+Attack.png A vulnerability in the latest firmware of the network-enabled Samsung TV models allows potential attackers to crash the vulnerable devices using Denial of Service DoS Attack, according to security researcher Malik Mesellem. According to Malik, The web server DMCRUIS/0.1...

Samsung's new OS Tizen 2.0 source code released

The Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK has officially been released. Tizen is a Linux-based open-source software platform backed by Intel and Samsung Electronics, that is designed for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and in-car systems and it's designed to run apps written using web technologies...

Samsung's new OS Tizen 2.0 source code released

The Tizen 2.0 source code and SDK has officially been released. Tizen is a Linux-based open-source software platform backed by Intel and Samsung Electronics, that is designed for smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and in-car systems and it’s designed to run apps written using web technologies...