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TV remote hacked, turned into listening device

May 20, 2021 by iHash Leave a Comment

There’s a certain reliability to everyday objects. Take a TV remote for example: It’s hard to imagine one eavesdropping on conversations, but cybersecurity researchers J. J. Lehman and Ofri Ziv from Israeli company Guardicore got one to do just that. They reported their findings at RSA Conference 2021. How researchers hacked a remote The subject of Lehman and Ziv’s research was … [Read more...] about TV remote hacked, turned into listening device

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TV remote hacked, turned into listening device