Researchers: ‘Untraceable’ and ‘unstoppable’ attacks on the Internet through TVs

An attack setup cost would be about $450 and each attack would cost another $50 per hour but that includes compensation for risk taken by the attacker. Columbia Universitys Yossef Oren and Angelos D. Keromytis will present From the Aether to the Ethernet Attacking the Internet using Broadcast Digital Television at the upcoming 23rd USENIX Security Symposium. The attacks were repeatedly described as untraceable or invisible and unstoppable None of the attacks are restricted in any way by HbbTV’s security mechanisms”]

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