Smart TVs vulnerable to hack via radio
DOI: 10.1063/PT.5.027995
BBC : The Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV (HbbTV) standard for smart TVs, which is widely used in Europe, is vulnerable to a simple attack that requires only a radio antenna. By broadcasting code that accesses a smart TV’s ability to receive targeted advertisements, an attacker can gain full control of the device. The attacker would also be able to access any other devices shared on the home network, such as computers and cell phones. Yossef Oren and Angelos Keromytis of Columbia University, who discovered the vulnerability, showed that a large enough antenna placed in an area with many smart TVs would be able to hijack thousands of the devices. The company that oversees the HbbTV standard does not believe the threat is serious enough to warrant updating the devices’ security, however.
