Great, now your monitor can be hacked too

You are all well aware that your computer, tablet, and smartphone can be hacked… but have you ever wondered if someone is trying to compromise your monitor?

Probably not. It’s just a dumb display, isn’t it? I mean, all it does is sit there and light up pixels wherever your computer tells it to… right? The unfortunate truth is that monitors are smarter than we generally think they are, and that makes them a perfect target for hackers.

And Cui is the lead scientist at Red Balloon Security, and he led the team that made this frightening discovery. Like so many devices nowadays do, your monitor has a microcontroller inside it. That got Cui thinking that monitors could, therefore, be hacked and manipulated.