Hacked roadside billboards are in the news again, so it felt like a good time to take a look back on some of the more notable incidents that have caught the media’s attention in the past…
January 2009
No, you don’t have to worry about a botnet bombarding you. It’s zombies in Austin, Texas, you have to watch out for.
“ZOMBIES AHEAD”
May 2012
Practical jokers meddled with a a road sign to warn drivers of an invasion from Skaro’s much-feared tin pepperpots:
“WARNING DALEKS AHEAD”
January 2015
It’s a new year, but mischief-makers have quickly forgotten their resolution not to f**k around with road signs.
Need a New Year resolution, maybe? "Read a f'n book" says #DTLA electronic street sign pic.twitter.com/3iJhOsDg3X
— Daina Beth Solomon (@dainabethcita) January 9, 2015
At least they’re encouraging literacy…
May 2015
Hackers remotely attacked an electronic billboard display to show the obscene Goatse image (Don’t Google it. If you don’t know what Goatse is, consider yourself lucky. You’ve been warned.) to motorists and passers-by in the affluent uptown Buckhead dis ..
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