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From the Aether to the Ethernet - Attacking the Internet using Broadcast Digital Television Yosef Oren, Angelos D. Keromytis Vladimir Lambert
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Smart TV Hybrid Broadcast-Broadband Television (HbbTV) - includes HTML in broadcast streams - connected to Internet Polls, custom adds,...
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HbbTV (Broadcast) Works on top of the DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting) system Data, metadata streams + more metadata Autostart broadcast dependent applications (most commont form of content) Application Information Table includes URL or points to stream
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What can application do? Http requests Get info about running chanel Render content on top of the TV broadcast Replace broadcasted content Not signal viewer it is running
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Security Some functions of terminal only for trusted apps Protecting DRM content Broadcast stream explicitly defines its origin
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Attack Transmitted on the same frequency Can affect more channels Is untraceable, invisible, unstoppable
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Possible Attacks DDoS Unauthenticated Request Forgery (script can fully interact with content of page) Authenticated request forgery Intranet request forgery Phishing Exploit distribution
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It is cheap 1.5 km 2 for less tham 500$ 35 km 2 for less tham 2000$ Impact depends on density of inhabitants
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Countermesures Crowdsource detercion of RF attacks Users controll over apps life-cycle Restrict broadcast delivered HTML content
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Thank you for your attention
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Bibliography Yosef Oren, Angelos D. Keromytis. “From the Aether to the Ethernet - Attacking the Internet using Broadcast Digital Television”. In: Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon University. url: https://crypto.stanford.edu/~dabo/pubs/abstract s/pwdmgrBrowser.html.
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