It's still really easy to hack and reprogram road signs

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It's still really easy to hack and reprogram road signs
August 27, 2018
https://statescoop.com/its-still-really-easy-to-hack-and-reprogram-road-signs

[...] road sign being reprogrammed by somebody exploiting the device through a factory-default password that's been widely distributed around the internet. And as the signs are often owned and operated by private contractors doing the road work, there's often little government transportation officials can do to prevent the hacking.

"This is fairly common," said John Mueller, the vice president for sales at ADDCO, the Minnesota-based manufacturer of the Arlington road sign that was commandeered for the Fortnite reference. "There is a default password. If it has not been changed, it has been posted on the internet."

"To some this is a 'prank' to me it is an indication of a lack of security on a portion of our SCADA infrastructure," [...]

Arlington officials, though, appear to be taking the episode as a lesson about the easy vulnerability of some of the most basic pieces of infrastructure, said county spokeswoman Jessica Baxter.
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