Security assessment of IoT devices: The case of two smart TVs

Authors

Maxim Chernyshev, Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow
Peter Hannay, Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan UniversityFollow

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publisher

SRI Security Research Institute, Edith Cowan University, Perth, Western Australia

Abstract

Being increasingly complex devices, smart TVs are becoming more capable and have the potential to receive, store, process and transmit considerable amounts of personal data. These capabilities also represent several diverse attack surfaces potentially rendering these devices highly vulnerable. The emergence and high adoption rate of smart TVs have been drawing notable interest from security researchers and industry. We utilise an attack surface area-based approach to assess the security of two modern smart TVs from different vendors and describe some of the possible multi-surface attacks that can be carried out against these devices.

Comments

13th Australian Digital Forensics Conference, held from the 30 November – 2 December, 2015 (pp. 85-94), Edith Cowan University Joondalup Campus, Perth, Western Australia.

DOI

10.4225/75/57b3fa87fb88d