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Smart TVs are vulnerable to attacks

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Jun 22, 2012

Home entertainment has expanded beyond the traditional television. Modern TV sets are very similar to a desktop computer: they have a processor, memory, a hard disk and some sort of an operating system running.

Codenomicon robustness tested six well-known TV manufacturers’ top model smart TVs. The bad news is that none of them cleared all of the tests where critical communications protocols were scrutinized.

http://www.net-security.org/secworld.php?id=13150

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