Vulnerability in Blu-Ray Players can allow hackers to infiltrate into network
The flaws was discovered by British hacker Stephen Tomkinson who presented the vulnerability onNCC Blog. The malicious disc can execute arbitrary codes automatically and also bypass the auto-run prevention mechanism in Windows. To show his vulnerability, Tomkinson used the popular Cyberlinks PowerDVD software. Tomkinson says that Cyberlinks PowerDVD supports Blu-ray since 2009 but has hardly updated security mechanisms since then. As such, an execute function is available and it could be used to run a command....