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Why Google Has Yet to Fix Chromecast Flaw One Year Later

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Sean Michael Kerner
Aug 5, 2015

Every summer, the annual Black Hat USA security conference trots out a conga line of security experts, many of them with zero-day exploits in hand. More often than not, those exploits get fixed in a relatively short period of time after the conference ends, but not always. Case in point is a Google Chromecast security vulnerability first publicly demonstrated at the Black Hat USA event last year.

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Sean Michael Kerner

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