A new hack that want little more than a $ 250 1 - watt amplifier could leave your overbold TV vulnerable to a man - in - the - halfway blast . It ’s phone the “ Red Button ” attack , after the ruby push button on your remote that allows you to control the interactive features of your impertinent TV , and was discovered by two researcher at the Columbia University web Security Lab .
Forbes has a great account about how it works :
Red Button can best be thought of as a classical “ mankind - in - the - mediate ” attack , or a particularly subtle descendant of the signal injections of the former days of cable boob tube .
[ … ] What also makes Red Button pernicious is that the malware would run automatically when a viewer tunes into a compromise channel and runs completely in the background without the cognition or consent of the TV set possessor . And the attack is untraceable , because the hacker never present himself on the Internet with a reference IP address or DNS waiter . The only way for law enforcement to find a rogue broadcast is to send out multiple vehicle - mounted antenna to triangulate the signal . A hacker could be long gone before those trucks ever hit the streets .
Between this and the fact that that most impertinent TVs are kings of the clunky port , we’ve never wanted a dumb TVmore . [ Forbes ]
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