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Researcher demonstrated SmartTV hacking on Samsung models

The researcher Malik Mesellem demonstrated that SmartTV hacking is a real menace, Samsung models could be forced to reboot sending an HTTP GET request. The web server (DMCRUIS/0.1) installed on Smart TVs that responds on TCP port 5600 can be used to force a reboot of the device just sending aformatted. request on TVs address. As a result, the TV reboots. The hacker could hit the device with a Denial of Service (DoS) Attack, according to the researcher.”]

Source: http://securityaffairs.co/wordpress/16535/hacking/researcher-demonstrated-smarttv-hacking-on-samsung-models.html

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