Tag: hacking

Bill Ripp on How to Prevent Hacking of Digital Billboards.

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 […]

Outdoorlink on Protecting Your Digital Sign

Insider wrote an article last week about Digital Billboard Hacking.  The subject is timely.  AL.com , Motherboard and Sixteen Nine reported that last Friday a hacker put pornographic images of Marco Rubio on 2 Alabama digital billboards owned by Durden Outdoor after a hacker breached the controls.  The hack happened because the […]

Durden Outdoor Digital Billboards Hacked

Insider wrote last week about Digital Billboard hacking.  On Friday Durden Outdoor digital billboards in Enterprise, Alabama were hacked according to AL.com, Motherboard and Sixteen Nine.  The hacker uploaded faked pornographic images of Marco Rubio.  Sixteen Nine reports that the hack was aided because the login credentials for the board were […]

Hacking Digital Billboards

There’s a 2013 Defcon talk called Hijacking the Outdoor Digital Billboard.  You tube “hacking billboards” you’ll see lots of hijacked digital billboards.   There are creative, intelligent, sketchy people with way too much time on their hands who would love to hack your digital billboards.  Here are some billboard vulnerabilities identified […]