Let’s assume the IT team at Outfront Media is CLOSELY reviewing its software security in the wake of a hack Wednesday of several digital ... […]
German content partner Invidis has a post up about yet another example of what can happen when a digital signage network has security gaps. ... […]
Along with putting messages digital billboards that might be seen by Russian soldiers, enterprising Ukrainians (or people supporting them) are finding other ways to ... […]
Here’s a cautionary tale for anyone running an enterprise-level digital signage network: an Illinois high school student managed to take over the digital signage ... […]
A digital billboard in the Detroit area was hacked last fall, with ads replaced by a very naughty video. Probably like most people, I assumed a couple of teenaged boys with strong computer chops somehow got at the media player and made the change, for the sake of some giggles. I was right, though the level of vulnerability of the board is/was a little mind-blowing. […]
Let’s assume the persons who hacked digital screens in Auckland and Detroit this past weekend, replacing advertising with naughty movies, were more pranksters than serious hackers. But there are also organized efforts out there to “hack” backlit posters on transit shelters and street furniture in major cities like London. […]
If the need to lock down a public-facing digital signage display wasn’t obvious already, here’s an example from New Zealand of what happens when operators either don’t, or don’t do it well enough. […]
The flight information (FIDS) and gate information (GIDS) screens went out of service last week at Cleveland Hopkins International Airport after a ransomware attack on the passenger-facing systems. The screens went dark a week ago, and the airport’s CIO said this morning that it was still working to get them all back online. Wow! […]
An awful lot of the webinars that get organized by vendors or trade associations tend to re-visit familiar territory, but a session coming up in early August is, I think, the first to get into the touchy subject of preventing digital signage displays from being hacked. […]
Several Atlanta-area news organizations are reporting how someone hacked (presumably) into a large digital billboard running on a building in ritzy Buckhead – switching out booked ads for a pic of a guy mooning. Like serious mooning. Big bend over yuck. […]
