{"id":16734,"date":"2017-04-13T17:42:09","date_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16734"},"modified":"2017-04-13T17:42:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-13T22:42:09","slug":"about-90-of-smart-tvs-vulnerable-to-remote-hacking-via-rogue-tv-signals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16734","title":{"rendered":"About 90% of Smart TVs Vulnerable to Remote Hacking via Rogue TV Signals"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>According to Scheel, the problem is that the HbbTV standard, carried by DVB-T signals and supported by all smart TVS, allows the sending of commands that tell smart TVs to access and load a website in the background.<\/p>\n<p>Knowing this, Scheel developed two exploits he hosted on his own website, which when loaded in the TV&#8217;s built-in browser would execute malicious code, gain root access, and effectively take over the device.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bleepingcomputer.com\/news\/security\/about-90-percent-of-smart-tvs-vulnerable-to-remote-hacking-via-rogue-tv-signals\/\">About 90% of Smart TVs Vulnerable to Remote Hacking via Rogue TV Signals<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Scheel, the problem is that the HbbTV standard, carried by DVB-T signals and supported by all smart TVS, allows the sending of commands that tell smart TVs to access and load a website in the background. Knowing this, &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=16734\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[285],"tags":[1125,1308,698,1307],"class_list":["post-16734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cpe","tag-exploit-vector","tag-internet-ofthings","tag-security-research","tag-smart-homes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16734"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16735,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16734\/revisions\/16735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}