Madrid, February 28 (EFE) .- The ‘smart TV’ or connected televisions have obvious security risks becoming a moment in which “will be juicy for criminals “, therefore” pillars “of security remain common sense and awareness.
While the market for ‘smart TV’ is sufficiently deployed, according to experts consulted by Efe, yet there are no habits to connect to internet through these TVs, but when you start doing more operations, such as checking bank accounts, “the criminals will go for it.”
main risk of these devices is that “we still see it as a TV when it is actually a computer”, ie is connected to the internet and is just as susceptible to a laptop or a smartphone, “but do not worry so much because the After a TV and lose sight of safety, “explained told Efe Kaspersky malware analyst, Daniel Creus.
For this expert can collect data from a television connected to the network and is “a trend that all end up looking” because although it does not have evidence that there have been attacks with the intention of profiting financially, “It’s about time that a malicious code appears.”
For example, a few weeks ago only, the controversy rocked Samsung, who was accused of spying private conversations of their customers through their connected TVs, which was denied by the South Korean company.
The security expert G Data, Eddy Willems, stressed that the ‘smart TV’ incorporated microphones, cameras, can record videos and are connected to the Internet, which means they can be “attacked” and become instruments scams or espionage.
“It does not seem unlikely that even government organizations or terrorists could potentially use them for this purpose in some kind of attack directed” continued Willems.
In addition, these devices personal data stored in both TVs themselves as cloud services, “data that are one of the favorite boots cybercrime industry.”
Connected TVs offer all kinds of services online : rent movies, video calling, shopping … and allow user interaction “with powerful processors and an internet connection” and if criminals could succeed in infecting “from stealing all kinds of personal data to spying inside the rooms where they are installed. “
So, this expert has warned that we must” be wary of anything that is connected to the internet or at least be clear that if connected may be subject to any type of threat. “
With the increasing number of Internet users is increasing the number of potential victims and both specialists insist that awareness is one of the pillars of security and the need to inform people that there are certain risks, but “without falling into alarmism, because not that people throw their televisions and a tube is purchased 20 years ago, but in seeing the risks.”
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