Smart TVs make screenshots every second & send them to the server

By David Balaban There are a lot of unexpansive smart TVs on the market. Have you ever thought about why they got so cheap? This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Smart TVs make screenshots every second & send them to the server...

Smart TVs: The Cyberthreat Lurking in Your Living Room, Feds Warn

Black Friday and Cyber Monday sales of smart TVs are likely prodigious this Thanksgiving weekend – but consumers need to be aware of the hole they can punch in home cyber-defenses. That’s the word from the FBI, which warned that smart TVs, which hook up to the internet to allow users to access ap...

Pwn2Own Tokyo Roundup: Amazon Echo, Routers and Smart TVs Fall to Hackers

Another Pwn2Own has drawn to a close, with Team Fluoroacetate researchers Amat Cama and Richard Zhu taking home the Master of Pwn title for the third year in a row. Overall, contestants in the Tokyo 2019 event earned more than $315,000 over the two-day hacking contest, for uncovering 18 different...

Tracking by Smart TVs

Long Twitter thread about the tracking embedded in modern digital televisions. The thread references three academic papers...

Smart TVs, Subscription Services Leak Data to Facebook, Google

Smart TVs and so-called “over the top” OTT platforms are the latest IoT devices found “spying” on users and leaking sensitive data to companies such as Facebook, Amazon, Google and Netflix, according to two separate studies conducted by university researchers as well as independent research done ...

Samsung asks users to scan their Smart TVs for malware – Here’s how to

By Waqas Samsung tweeted and then deleted that tweet stating that users should scan their Smart TVs for malware “every few weeks.” Smart devices are vulnerable to all sorts of digital threats, and this is not a hidden reality as we often hear about internet connected devices getting hacked or...

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...

Mirai Variant Goes After Enterprise Systems

Researchers have discovered a new variant of the infamous Mirai IoT botnet, which has been sniffing out and targeting vulnerabilities in enterprise wireless presentation and display systems since January. Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 researchers said that the newest variant of Mirai is notably...

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...

CVE-2017-6791

A vulnerability in the Trust Verification Service TVS of Cisco Unified Communications Manager could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service DoS condition on an affected device. The vulnerability is due to improper handling of Transport Layer Security TLS traffic by...

CVE-2017-6791

CVE-2017-6791 affects Cisco Unified Communications Manager Trust Verification Service (TVS). A remote, unauthenticated attacker can cause a DoS by sending incomplete TLS traffic, denying TVS access until a restart. Affected releases include 10.0(1.10000.24), 10.5(2.10000.5), 11.0(1.10000.10), and...

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...

QNAP TVS-663 QTS < 4.2.4 build 20170313 - Command Injection Vulnerability

Exploit for hardware platform in category web applications QNAP QTS multiple RCE vulnerabilities ===================================== The latest version of this advisory is available at: https://sintonen.fi/advisories/qnap-qts-multiple-rce-vulnerabilities.txt Overview -------- QNAP QTS firmware...

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...

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...