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Traffic halted as hackers replace roadside video adverts with porn
- vl 17y agoIt should be noted that traffic in Moscow is in the semi-permanent jam anyway, so it's unlikely that this video contributed. Photo of the billboard screen (NSFW): http://damian.livejournal.com/596391.html http://damian.livejournal.com/596391.html
- NathanKP 17y agoPennu.ru do not know who or how the display was accessed and aren’t ruling out a competing advertising company being involved in this eye-opening event. That is a ridiculous statement. They aren't ruling out a competing advertising company, but that doesn't mean they have any proof at all.
- andrewvc 17y agoI wonder what the vector was? Are these things internet enabled, or is it just a matter of sticking a flash drive into one of them?
- vl 17y agoOne of the articles in Russian says that disgruntled employee is suspected.
- mattwdelong 17y agoI think a lot of these devices operate directly via a network, some I believe even operate via wireless. Regardless of HOW they operate, there will always be an attack vector. There is nothing to mitigate human error. We all make mistakes, let alone some of us being plain dumb.
- djcapelis 17y agoWhile it may not be clear what the vector for this particular incident was, here's a defcon presentation about some of the general issues: http://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-16-archive.html#Tottenkoph http://www.defcon.org/html/links/dc-archives/dc-16-archive.h...
- lallysingh 17y agoI'm still at work. Someone mind flagging this as SFW or not?
- mahmud 17y agoSFW.