I know what you streamed last night: On the security and privacy of streaming

Streaming media are currently conquering traditional multimedia by means of services like Netflix, Amazon Prime and Hulu which provide to millions of users worldwide with paid subscriptions in order to watch the desired content on-demand. Simultaneously, numerous applications and services infringing this content by sharing it for free have emerged. The latter has given ground to a new market based on illegal downloads which monetizes from ads and custom hardware, often aggregating peers to maximize multimedia content sharing. Regardless of the ethical and legal issues involved, the users of such streaming services are millions and they are severely exposed to various threats, mainly due to poor hardware and software configurations. Recent attacks have also shown that they may, in turn, endanger others as well. This work details these threats and presents new attacks on these systems as well as forensic evidence that can be collected in specific cases.