Millions of Smart TVs Vulnerable To 'Red Button' Attack 155
An anonymous reader writes "Researchers from Columbia University's Network Security Lab discovered a flaw affecting millions of Smart TVs supporting the HbbTV standard. The flaw allows a radio-frequency attacker with a low budget to take control over tens of thousands of TVs in a single attack, forcing the TVs to interact with any website on their behalf — Academic paper available online."
Re:It doesn't take a genius to come up with an att (Score:5, Funny)
Gee, who woulda thunk... (Score:5, Funny)
When you make cheap, shitty, under-engineered, non-compatible systems that can't be commodotized because everyone is banking on their propriety system taking off and cornering the market... that you'll end up with a cheap, shitty, under-engineered system with major security flaws?
Yet another reason why Smart TVs are worse than useless.