Hacking cable television

The FBI insists that people need to make security a top priority, especially with the growth of internet-enabled streaming and satellite dish services.

Do research before buying a smart TV and decide whether you could minimize the risks as much as possible. If you buy one or already have one, ensure you know everything about its features and how to control them. Science Alert. December 2, Sarah Schafer. Sarah is a baker, cook, author, and blogger living in Toronto. She believes that food is the best method of healing and a classic way of bringing people together.

In her spare time, Sarah does yoga, reads cookbooks, writes stories, and finds ways to make any type of food in her blender. Fucking Is No More in Austria. The computer is a different kettle of fish though as there are numerous ways to bug or hack one of those and the only true way to know that you are totally secure is not to use one. Now in theory any wire that comes into your dwelling can carry out a signal or something as simple as a Gun Mic is able to listen in on conversations that you may be having but none of this stuff is cheap and it's mostly used by professional Inelegance Gatherer's.

These are Massive Government Organisations not civilians with little to no money available. In short something like this is unlikely to actually be happening unless you have taken absolutely no steps to secure your computer.

So if you have no AV Product in place and no Spy Ware Products loaded, updated and regally used you can have major infections of both Virus and Spy Ware that could be sending every keystroke off site to someone else, but even this is mostly confined to bank fraud so that your bank accounts can be emptied at will. If you are really concerned about an invasion of privacy I would suggest that you sell up and move into the wild country without any supplied Mains Power water or anything else like that and setup a shack that is sealed by some kind of metal around all the internal walls that connects together to form one complete Faraday Cage that is earthed to a good earth point that you continually pour water onto.

I would never suggest that you apply power to anything that you find wound around someone else's property as it could be legally there and if it's not legally there it's not your responsibility to do anything about as you don't own the cable and you will most likely be held responsible for any damage incurred. You are most likely being stalked and not hacked. It sounds like the person has attached something to your electrical wires. I'd first look at any home security system you may have installed.

Make sure your system is programmed to dial the police and fire department etc. Investigate powerline networking. Ask your electrical service provider if they have the ability to transmit data across their electrical wires. Doing these things is no guarantee. If you'd like to know more, please email me directly. I'm a service tech with from a cable tv provider.

Answers: 1- no, is not possible to hack your cable 2- no data can be transmitted that way, at least not the way you're reffering. I realize this is old but must reply. I have someone who knows me hacking into my cable but with a camera. It has to be done inside. The tv was taken apart,and where the cable is hooked up is a camera. You are viewed via internet. It is realy terrible to live this way. You can tell if you are watching tv and it freezes.

The post also states the power is messed with,yes that too is possible and happened to me. You have to video tape it! Rent the dvd Enough and see what that person does,its all possible. Thats the way I have to live and people dont believe me. I found a comcast gye that did and I went to a spy store that did. I have my cell phones hacked,dont instant message on your phone!!! You can point them right to the evidence.

If you are that worried, unhook the cable and unplug any power cords. From last eight to nine months, Rahul is working with a local cable TV network provider, where he discovered insecure implementations and weak architecture of the Cable TV networks, that could be abused by any potential hacker to carry out large scale attacks. Unlike Internet, Television is one way medium, and if someone hijack any cable TV network service provider and display an emergency alert or a stream in a Video stating that a riot has started in your nearby city.

Which in real is only a hoax, perpetrated by as-yet unknown hackers, but can cause enough panic among the people. The technicals details will be revealed in the HITB conference next week. Philip R. Some other interesting technical presentations which will also be part of the conference are listed below:. Found this article interesting?