While most online TV functions are as benign as checking the weather with a Weather Channel app, getting scores through a Fox Sports app or cruising a Netflix (Stock Quote: NFLX) queue, applications such as Amazon (Stock Quote: AMZN) On-Demand pay-per-view that give hackers financial incentive to access your network and steal passwords and other information prove problematic even when secured. The Last Stand - Union City with cheats: Keyhack 3 add cash, 4 add health, 5 add XP, 6 / 7 toggle unlimited ammo. As Sherman completed the destruction of Georgia, only the outnumbered but wily Confederate commander Joseph E. Mocana went out and bought a bunch of the most popular Internet TVs just before the past holiday season and found them wide open to attacks. "According to Moore's Law and the fact that we think in a linear way and don't realize how powerful these computers are getting - or that $1 worth of computer power today will be worth three cents in five years - we don't realize that these TVs are as powerful as the computers that were sitting on our desk 10 years ago." "In the home, you have this whole other phenomenon which is the explosion of phones, tablets and the next big wave, which is Internet-connected TVs," says Adrian Turner, chief executive of Mocana. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features Press Copyright Contact us Creators. We spoke with executives at Mocana and Superior Solutions and found that security flaws on the following items allow as much access for hackers as a lockless door would for a passing burglar: "All of those markets have or will have connected devices." "If you look at every sector of the economy, it's consumer electronics, it's smart grid and smart energy infrastructure, it's health care and medical devices, it's industrial control, it's aerospace and defense, it's retail and it's transportation logistics," says Adrian Turner, chief executive of Mocana. The hacking of Sony's (Stock Quote: SNE) PlayStation Network back in April, the ensuing shutdown and the exposure of nearly 100 million users' information brought the hacking problem home without using PC, a tablet or even a smartphone to get in.
With the researchers at Germany's University of Ulm discovering that Google Android devices not updated to the latest version of their operating system put calendar data, phone numbers, home addresses and email addresses at risk each time they connect to a network, personal smartphones and tablets are becoming prime targets for hackers.