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Yossef Oren and Angelos Keromytis from the Network Security Lab at Columbia University have found that the so-called Smart TV could be hacked using a cheap antenna and broadcast messages, and relies on an insecurity in the Hybrid Broadcast-Broadband Television Standard (HbbTV), which now features on millions of internet-connected TVs after being introduced two years ago.
HbbTV has been adopted by more than 90% of TV set producers, according to research outfit GFK, and allows the approximate 60 broadcasters using the standard in Europe to add interactive HTML content to DVB cable, satellite or terrestrial signals. This means that viewers can use their favourite web services via TV apps, and allows advertisers to serve up relevant ads.
But writing in a new research paper published this week, Oren and Keromytis have detailed that the standard is vulnerable to a "large-scale exploitation technique" that is "remarkably difficult to detect". It is low entry too – as a budget of just $270 would be enough to target around 20,000 devices.

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