METHODS OF PROTECTING SMART APPLIANCES BASED ON THE EXAMPLE OF SAMSUNG TV SET

At present the number of smart appliances, used in the households is growing very rapidly. At the same time there is a following growth of capturing of such devices by hackers with the intention to use them in DDos and Spam related attacks on the other networks and standalone computers. The paper reviews the methods of such attacks (of which the most widespread is the renewal of the software of the smart device, which is conducted via the altering of DNS addressing) as well as the methods of protection from such attacks via strengthening the security of the routers and wiping of the DNS cache.

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