Monitors Vulnerable To Hijacking And Spying

Hotfix monitor drivers coming riiight up!

 

I fell like companies that make monitors can spin this toward: "we have increased the prices of monitors because our monitors are now hack free" kinda thing. I hope it doesn't come to it...

 

hahahaha, next thing we see is an antivirus for monitors, only for 49,99! Order now and get a set of free monitor cleaning tissues! :banana:

 

How would hackers input their hack into the firmware in the first place? Through the HDMI/DVI/Displayport or through a USB hub?

 

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What's interesting about the news, it's one billion monitors that are vulvernable, and no statement which. Good call dudes, no chance to 'ask' for a fix as long as nobody knows there is an exploit with their screen...

 

Time to use my PCs with the screen turn off so.

 

Anyone here knows what's DDC/CI max bandwidth and how big is one frame? When NSA spies on Skype, they get good access, but this...

And then again, programming firmware into monitor takes time. And at that time, monitor is off.
So going to website, that identifying my monitor. Pushing right firmware into monitor while user tries to browse on monitor which just wen dark...
I can see Power OFF/ON sequence coming for 95% of users, killing screen in process.

 

So... they'd sell us the new 'hack proof' screens afterwards?

 

Those who allow any ActiveX application mess freely on their computer actually deserves to be hijacked :banana:

 

I'd imagine that making a hack-proof monitor would involve replacing the EEPROM or flash memory module the firmware is stored on with a proper ROM or EPROM module, if possible.

 

so does this mean we can now modify our displays firmware to enable/increase our overclocks ^^

 

Im watching porn with my monitor turned off from now on.

 

From what I can understand it doesn't require any uploading of firmware to the monitor, the attack sits in the data that is sent to the monitor by your videooutput and exploits the already existing firmware.

 

I wonder if this news alerted hackers to new possibilities involved which they otherwise may not have known about.

 

Does that mean that along with vulnerabilities in the monitor firmware, GPU drivers and Windows also need patching?

 

Defo, lets hope audio won't be hacked in the years to come. VHS sounds like a good gadget to have further down the road.

 

I'm not technologically savvy enough to say anything about that. I'd imagine it'd introduce lag if the GPU/driver would need to check every pixel or whatever for certain patterns.

 

Except a hacker would already have access to your system even before attempting to mess with the screen. This news is practically redundant.

Ah journalism these days...