Monitors Vulnerable To Hijacking And Spying

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  1. Denial

    Denial Ancient Guru

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    Wut

    The entire point is that it's stored in the monitors firmware. Yeah the attacker needs temporary access to the system, but once that's cleared and you think you're secured -- they still have the monitor embedded virus that no one is looking for.
     
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  2. lucidus

    lucidus Ancient Guru

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    A malicious web page can actually access and write to your monitor's firmware? wut??

    Which browser did they demonstrate this on? IE6?
     
  3. slyphnier

    slyphnier Guest

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    even so...i dont see it will be popular malware even it said that 1billion monitors susceptible

    what it can does limited, either spying or showing "fake" stuff
    i dont see most cyber criminal using it except you are famous/super rich person

    its far for malware basic design, to control system, to either get password --money, control for computing power or other evil intention

    say if you hack someone monitor, do u willing to waste ur time, looking at hacked person display that only watch pr0n all day ?
     
  4. tsunami231

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    next there gona be able to see us on threw our monitors like they have cameras when the dont...
     
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  5. Reddoguk

    Reddoguk Ancient Guru

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    I play much better with my monitors off anyway so i'm fine. I wonder if HDTVs also use that same processor or is it just PC monitors.
     
  6. Derragon

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    Keep in mind this only applies to HDMI and DisplayPort. VGA and DVI are unaffected, and there is no way to modify the setting to prevent this apart from a reflash which can't be done over those two signals (except through the exploit). Perhaps through USB, but otherwise through the programming headers on the control board.
     
  7. russ1

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    I can blame being hacked now if i get caught watching porn.
     
  8. Juliuszek

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    Well, they can hack my PC, they can hack my monitor - I can forgive that.
    But when they hack my refrigerator and make it inaccessible in the evenings - I will use all my resources to hunt them down!
    :)
     
  9. elkosith

    elkosith Maha Guru

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    My laptop screen does this. Every time I turned my laptop off, I can see myself on the screen. That's why I always, always fold the screen down when it's off so it can't see me.
     

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