Samsung, so you think you are safe?
First of all how come none of this important info never hits the TV news? They tell us all about Kardashians aarss but never report problems in the tech realm. ""The flaws in Samsung Smart TVs, wh...
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Some of these stories are ridiculous. Mentioning a secure router, my assumption is that the "hackers" are getting to the TV directly, and not through the web. Routers by their nature are firewalls, so that means that anything behind it is not exposed to or known about from a bot pinging IP's. Worry more about devices that you actually download software and files to, like PC's, Mac's, iPhone, Android, etc. All with cameras
Edit- I just remembered where I heard that name.. There was recently a security conference; which is likely where this report came from, where it was reported from one of these "security" companies that one brand of EAS unit was vulnerable to hacks, similar to the Zombie scare up in Montana a few months ago. It was reported, exactly as it was in this article about (without getting technical) holes in the software that allowed hackers to gain access to the box and essentially issue any form of alert they they wanted to send. Since I manage about 75 of these units across the country, I called the factory and they said that this problem was patched almost a year ago, and the people raising all the alarms were a new upstart security company trying to make a name for themselves at the conference issuing alerts on equipment that had long been fixe, but was an easy mark since the Zombie alert was well known and seemed to be the standing joke in that industry. And OBTW- they actually downloaded the firmware for this box that was available on the web (it isn't anymore), before they were able to find a hole. This brewha caused allot of us to waste time dealing with the legal departments assuring them that this was a non-issue.
Edit- I just remembered where I heard that name.. There was recently a security conference; which is likely where this report came from, where it was reported from one of these "security" companies that one brand of EAS unit was vulnerable to hacks, similar to the Zombie scare up in Montana a few months ago. It was reported, exactly as it was in this article about (without getting technical) holes in the software that allowed hackers to gain access to the box and essentially issue any form of alert they they wanted to send. Since I manage about 75 of these units across the country, I called the factory and they said that this problem was patched almost a year ago, and the people raising all the alarms were a new upstart security company trying to make a name for themselves at the conference issuing alerts on equipment that had long been fixe, but was an easy mark since the Zombie alert was well known and seemed to be the standing joke in that industry. And OBTW- they actually downloaded the firmware for this box that was available on the web (it isn't anymore), before they were able to find a hole. This brewha caused allot of us to waste time dealing with the legal departments assuring them that this was a non-issue.
