Collaborate Disseminate
“Smart” devices might be handy and offer higher quality services, but users should be aware that everything comes with a price. And we’re not talking here about the price of the actual device, but of the fact that these devices collec… Continue reading Should you trust your smart TV or streaming device?
A news report claims that hackers were able to secretly capture intimate footage of a married couple and upload it to a porn website.
But I’ve got a number of questions…
Continue reading Did a hacked smart TV upload footage of couple having sofa sex to a porn website?
This is your Shared Security Weekly Blaze for June 24th 2019 with your host, Tom Eston. In this week’s episode: Facebook announces a new cryptocurrency called Libra, two new zero-day vulnerabilities affecting Firefox, and should you be scanning y… Continue reading Facebook’s New Cryptocurrency, Firefox Zero Day, Smart TV Malware
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 int… Continue reading Samsung asks users to scan their Smart TVs for malware – Here’s how to
We head to Hong Kong to look at how technology has helped anti-government protesters (and how China has tried to disrupt it), Samsung is skittish over whether to tell TV owners to virus-scan their devices, and you won’t believe whose website is n… Continue reading Smashing Security #133: Cookie cock-ups, Hong Kong protests, and smart TV virus scans
I have a Samsung Smart TV running Tizen OS, and out of curiosity I scanned it with Nmap. I found multiple open ports. One of those ports is running a “display” service. Does this mean it can cast its own screen, or that i can… Continue reading I have found ports on my Samsung smart tv running a display service. What can I do with it?
Two models of Android TVs showed a stream of strangers’ Google accounts, along with profile pics, though not the actual photos. Continue reading Google Photos disables sharing on Android TV
I purchased an Intel compute stick to turn a TV into a display.
I have it set up so that I can VNC into the computer to change what shows up (Open windows, show movies, etc…). It works great in this fashion, however my con… Continue reading How To Secure a Computer Stick that Runs a TV
I’ve recently noticed that a new device shows up as available to cast to from my android phone when I’m logged on to our home Wi-Fi. It’s an LG Sk8100 TV, but as we own no such TV. I’m assuming it’s the neighbour’s.
Since our Wi-Fi is WPA… Continue reading Why can I cast to my neighbour’s TV on my Wi-Fi?
Google has created an alternative disk and file encryption mode for low-end Android devices that don’t have enough computation power to use the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES). About Adiantum For the new encryption scheme, dubbed Adiantum, Goo… Continue reading Adiantum: A new encryption scheme for low-end Android devices