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Stories · 2

  1. European HbbTV Smart TV Holes Make Sets Hackable

    It · Security · · posted by Unknown · from the all-the-better-to-spy-on-you dept. · 39 comments
    mask.of.sanity writes "Vulnerabilities in Hybrid Broadcast Broadband TV television sets have been found that allow viewers' home networks to be hacked, the programs they watched spied on, and even for TV sets to be turned into Bitcoin miners. The laboratory attacks took take advantage of the rich web features enabled in smart TVs running on the HbbTV network, a system loaded with online streaming content and apps which is used by more than 20 million viewers in Europe."

  2. Mint It Yourself With a Browser-Based Bitcoin Miner

    News · Money · · posted by timothy · from the b-b-but-the-feds-are-here! dept. · 490 comments
    An anonymous reader writes "There's a popular discussion happening at the Bitcoin forums about a new browser-based bitcoin miner released today. This lets people mine for bitcoin straight from the browser. There's talk of making an embeddable version. How long until websites start using CPU power from their users to create Bitcoin for their owners?" As Bitcoin gets more attention, I foresee malware with payloads promising to do the same thing.