Secure digital screens. Secure digital screens. Secure digital screens. Vice reports that a video game player plugged in his PlayStation 4 directly to an airport monitor at the Portland Airport in order to play Apex Legends before boarding a flight. Could have been worse if he’d chosen to show something […]
Daily Detroit reports that hackers showed an adult video on a digital billboard owned by Triple Communications along I-75 North between University Drive and M-59 in Auburn hills MI. The suspects were caught on camera breaking into the building which houses the computer that programs the billboard. There are hackers […]
Digital security is important. Cleveland.com and 16:9 report that the Cleveland airport’s flight and baggage information screens were down for much of last week as a result of a malware attack. The FBI is involved. There’s quite a twitter trail. The affected screens weren’t smart advertising screens or kiosks […]
Insider heard reports this week that a digital billboard in the northwest got hacked. We asked Formetco’s Jim Shimmin to talk about digital billboard security. Jim, how do Independent Billboard Operators protect their digital billboards from being hacked? The two most important things are Network Security and Password Security. Network […]
Insider typed in the URL for a large out of home advertising company yesterday and got this. Hackers hijacked the website. Imagine the damage to your out of home company if customers or prospects visit your website and are hijacked somewhere else where their personal information is stolen or malware […]
The Australia Outdoor Media Association was hacked two weeks ago. The hackers encrypted all the Association’s files and asked for a bitcoin ransom. The Association blogged on the hack. Here are the Outdoor Media Association’s observations together with Insider’s comments in italics. Backup every day so you can restore your […]
Masheable and Digital Signage Today have written about a porn video which showed for three minutes at rush hour on a digital kiosk touchscreen in Washington DC’s Union Station on Monday May 15. The kiosk’s software was not secure or password protected. The hacker used the kiosk’s touch screen to access and display a […]
Insider is paranoid about hacking because he was the victim of a hack attack in March 2016. There’s a simple way to find out if your out of home email or out of home company website has been compromised via a data breach. Visit the have I been pwned […]
Guess what’s the number one search query on the Billboard Insider website this year? “How to hack a digital billboard.” There are lots of people out there who would love to hack your digital signs to make you look bad or simply to show they can get away with it. […]
Insider wishes to thank the OAAA and Lamar Vice President/Digital Development Bill Ripp for this article. Ripp is Chairman of the OAAA’s Digital Billboard Committee. The recent hacking of two digital billboards in Alabama reminds us of these important points: Digital billboards – like the rest of the world linked […]
