Smart TV sold over 80,000,000 around the world in 2012. The next generation “smart” platform is becoming more and more popular. On the other hand, we hardly see security researches on Smart TV. This presentation will talk about what we’ve found and figured out on the platform. You can picture that Smart TV has almost all attack vectors that PC and Smart Phone have. Also, Smart TV has its own attack vectors such as remote controller. We’ll talk about attack points of Smart TV platform and discover security bugs we found. Moreover, what attackers can do on a hacked Smart TV. For example, fancy Smart TVs have many hardware modules like Camera or Mic which means bad guys could watch you in a way that users never notice about it. Even more, they possibly make Smart TV working 24/7 even though users turn off their TV that means #1984 could be done. In addition, we’ll point out a difference of viewpoint of leaked information type among on PC, Smart Phone and Smart TV. Lastly, we’ll give demo of capturing photos lively taken and sending to attacker’s server at this talk.
Beist has been a member of the IT security field since 2000. His first company was Cyber Research based in Seoul, South Korea and focused on pen-testing. He then got a Computer Engineering B.A. degree from Sejong University. He has won more than 10 global CTF hacking contests in his country as well as passed DefCon quals 5 times. He has sold his research to major security companies like iDefense and ZDI (Recon ZDI contest). He has run numerous security conferences and hacking contests in Korea. Hunting bugs and exploiting them are his main interest. He does consulting for big companies in Korea and is now a graduate student at CIST IAS LAB, Korea University.