Tag: Smart TVs
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Smart TVs are spying on everyone
Smart TVs are watching their viewers and harvesting their data to benefit brokers using the same ad technology that denies privacy on the …
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Smart TVs make screenshots every second & send them to the server
journalists tracked how the largest TV makers record everything users watch. According to stats, the average American spends about three …
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Smart TVs: Yet another way for attackers to break into your home?
With their high-resolution screens, cameras, microphones and innovative interfaces geared towards a better user experience, smart TVs have …
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Samsung reminds rabble to scan smart TVs for viruses – then tries to make them forget
Samsung on Sunday sent out a tweet urging people to check their Sammy smart TVs for viruses – and then deleted the message, as if someone …
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Samsung Deletes Tweet Warning Users to Virus-Scan Their Smart TVs
Samsung’s ham-handed handling of a recent corporate tweet is further evidence that companies aren’t very good at security messaging. …
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TheHackerGiraffe says he’s retired from hacking smart TVs to promote PewDiePie
TheHackerGiraffe, the hacker who breached innocent users’ unsecured printers, Google Chromecast streaming devices, and smart TVs to …
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Hackers play PewDiePie ad on thousands of hacked Chromecasts & Smart TVs
Turns out all those devices aren’t only chromecasts, it’s a mix of Chromecasts, Google Homes, and TVs with built in chromecasts. All …
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Hackers Exploit Chromecast UPnP Router Vulnerability on Smart TVs
Funny story really, Swedish video-game vlogger PewDiePie got some unexpected help boosting subscription numbers when hackers took over …
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Chromecasts, smart TVs targeted in latest PewDiePie promotion hack
The same person behind the hack of printers in December to support YouTube star PewDiePie is back again. The hacker claims to have …
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Hackers Compromised SmartTVs and Chromecast Devices To Promote PewDiePie YouTube Channel
Hackers hijacked thousands of publically available Chromecast/SmartTV/GoogleHome devices to remotely play video on the users device and …
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Vizio to send class notices through the TVs that spied on viewers
In a sign that we’re actually all living in a science fiction novel, millions of smart TVs may soon be forced to admit to viewers that …
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Smart TVs are spying on you through your phone
Last year, the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) slapped TV maker Vizio with a $2.2m fine for watching us watch its TVs: the spy boxes were …
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