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karl
December 17th, 2012, 08:05 AM
Is your TV watching you? Security alert over Samsung's Smart TV as hackers claim they can access its hard drive and seize control of built-in cameras!

Samsung's Smart TV could used by hackers to watch everything that happens in your living room by gaining access to the device's built-in camera and microphones, it has been claimed.
Malta-based security firm ReVuln posted a video showing how its researchers had learned to crack the television to access its settings - including any personal information stored on it.
'We can install malicious software to gain complete root access to the TV,' they claim in the video.


Full story here: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2249303/Hackers-penetrate-home-Crack-Samsungs-Smart-TV-allows-attacker-seize-control-microphone-cameras.html#ixzz2FJWx6ZLt

Apollo.
December 17th, 2012, 09:30 AM
Well I'll be covering the cameras on my tv when I get in tonight! Why would someone want to watch what goes on in people's houses?! I'm freaking out now!

Infidelitas
December 19th, 2012, 08:15 PM
What's wrong with ordinary TVs? Just buy an ordinary TV and hook your computer up to it.

Mirage
December 19th, 2012, 08:55 PM
Why do these TV's even have cameras? Freaky.