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Samsung TVs Can Be Hacked Into Endless Restart Loop

Posted by timothy on from the you-were-warned dept.

Gunkerty Jeb writes "Italian security researcher Luigi Auriemma was trying to play a trick on his brother when he accidentally discovered two vulnerabilities in all current versions of Samsung TVs and Blu-Ray systems that could allow an attacker to gain remote access to those devices. Auriemma claims that the vulnerabilities will affect all Samsung devices with support for remote controllers, and that the vulnerable protocol is on both TVs and Blu-Ray enabled devices. One of the bugs leads to a loop of endless restarts while the other could cause a potential buffer overflow."

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  1. Init Level 6 by jellomizer · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I remember back in the good old days when Linux wasn't configured to automatically start in X. So I did what I have done a hundred times before, edit the inittab file. However for some reason that day I was thinking that init level 6 was the init level to Start X in...
    Well at least I had a bootable CD.
    # mount /dev/hda1 -t ext2 /mnt
    # vi /mnt/etc/inittab
    (changed it to 5)
    # umount /mnt
    # sync; sync; sync; reboot

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    If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
  2. Re:Great trick by asepsryn · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Some banks have very good fraud detection systems and it is in their interest to have them. The sooner they detect it, the less headache they have to deal with. One of my banks froze my card after I made several unexpected large purchases in one day. Another one called me when they noticed suspicious charges to confirm that I did make them. Someone got my card number, but I still had my card so I would not have reported it stolen or lost.

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