Tag: TVs
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Flaws in 90,000+ LG WebOS TVs Let Attacker’s Completely take Over Devices
Bitdefender, the cybersecurity firm, has unveiled a series of critical vulnerabilities in LG’s WebOS TVs, affecting over 91,000 devices …
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Thousands of LG TVs are vulnerable to takeover—here’s how to ensure yours isn’t one
As many as 91,000 LG TVs face the risk of being commandeered unless they receive a just-released security update patching four critical …
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Thousands of LG TVs exposed to the world. Here’s how to ensure yours isn’t one.
As many as 91,000 LG TVs face the risk of being commandeered unless they receive a just-released security update patching four critical …
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Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime
Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that’s infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old …
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Netflix bug that opened smart TVs to attacks is detailed, 4 years later
A bug in Netflix’s screencast protocol allowed hackers to hijack video streams and “Rickroll” unassuming victims, or worse. The bug, …
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Backdoored Android phones, TVs used for ad fraud – and worse!
A key monetization mechanism of a sophisticated series of cybercriminal operations involving backdoored off-brand mobile and CTV Android …
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Mirai Botnet Variant ‘Pandora’ Hijacks Android TVs for Cyberattacks
A Mirai botnet variant called Pandora has been observed infiltrating inexpensive Android-based TV sets and TV boxes and using them as part …
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Ads, NFTs and other badness: Pour one out for the decline of dumb TVs
In my particular lounge room sits a relic of a time long gone, a 15-year-old plasma TV that is dumb as a box of hammers, and thankfully so. …
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60 percent of Americans have smart TVs but many remain unprotected
Almost 60 percent of Americans have smart TVs in their homes, yet almost one in four do nothing to protect their smart devices. This is …
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Samsung: We will remotely brick smart TVs looted from our warehouse
Samsung is remotely bricking smart TVs it said were looted from one of its South African warehouses amid violent unrest in the nation. On …
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Samsung can remotely disable their TVs worldwide using TV Block
Samsung says that it can disable any of its Samsung TV sets remotely using TV Block, a feature built into all television products sold …
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FEMA will buzz phones, TVs and radios to test the national emergency alert system
FEMA will test its national emergency alert system later this week. …
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