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Reports suggest the man hacked into the system after seeing log-in details displayed on the billboard. How did that even happen?

by finid 10y ago

ZoF 10y ago
Yeah, quite a 'hack', probably why he got caught.
tracymorgan8520 10y ago
Found this on CBS news. "Al Hakam Ralial, admits he hacked the IT system of the billboard operator but claims that the broadcast of the porn movie was accidental." Now we have two "how did this happen?" questions.
- im3w1l 10y ago
  Could have said that as hacking is 6 years max while porn is 12.
- necessity 10y ago
  First: "Is the billboard still live?" "IDK just log in and change the ad I wanna go home" Second: "Cool a billboard password let me - whoops, forgot to close the porn"
wepple 10y ago
It's funny they go on to speculate whether he worked alone or not. If creds show up on a billboard broadcast to the general public, I doubt he needed to call in a favor from the Dark Army to pull this caper off.
acqq 10y ago
Look at the picture. The billboard is reflecting just a part of some bigger desktop. It can be that some real user who used that desktop got careless, moving some opened notepad file with the login details to that area. Even if it wasn't too long, enough for that "hacker" to make a photo with his phone. Then the "hacker" later logged in himself, and also, being presented with the full desktop (over the VNC, probably?) but not seeing that part of what he does is also continuously reflected on the billboard, but seeing that he has full internet access (or maybe just the access to the local mp4?) carelessly clicks and watches. There's Chrome bar on the billboard, again just a part of the desktop. And he watches more. And doesn't get it at all what he's doing all that time: according to some reports, it lasted 20 minutes(!) until the power was cut to the billboard. Of course, a lot of photos with the phones again.

Reports suggest the man hacked into the system after seeing log-in details displayed on the billboard. How did that even happen?

by finid 10y ago

Reports suggest the man hacked into the system after seeing log-in details displayed on the billboard. How did that even happen?

ZoF 10y ago

Yeah, quite a 'hack', probably why he got caught.

tracymorgan8520 10y ago

Found this on CBS news. "Al Hakam Ralial, admits he hacked the IT system of the billboard operator but claims that the broadcast of the porn movie was accidental." Now we have two "how did this happen?" questions.

im3w1l 10y ago
Could have said that as hacking is 6 years max while porn is 12.
necessity 10y ago
First: "Is the billboard still live?" "IDK just log in and change the ad I wanna go home" Second: "Cool a billboard password let me - whoops, forgot to close the porn"

wepple 10y ago

It's funny they go on to speculate whether he worked alone or not. If creds show up on a billboard broadcast to the general public, I doubt he needed to call in a favor from the Dark Army to pull this caper off.

acqq 10y ago

Look at the picture. The billboard is reflecting just a part of some bigger desktop. It can be that some real user who used that desktop got careless, moving some opened notepad file with the login details to that area. Even if it wasn't too long, enough for that "hacker" to make a photo with his phone. Then the "hacker" later logged in himself, and also, being presented with the full desktop (over the VNC, probably?) but not seeing that part of what he does is also continuously reflected on the billboard, but seeing that he has full internet access (or maybe just the access to the local mp4?) carelessly clicks and watches. There's Chrome bar on the billboard, again just a part of the desktop. And he watches more. And doesn't get it at all what he's doing all that time: according to some reports, it lasted 20 minutes(!) until the power was cut to the billboard. Of course, a lot of photos with the phones again.