RIP BSOD: New Windows Digital Signage Mode Fades Blue Screens Of Death To Black
November 24, 2025 by Dave Haynes
Anyone who’s made a career in the digital signage industry groans when she or he sees a screen – especially a BIG and public …
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Hackers Target LA Metro’s E-Paper Bus Stop Displays
November 5, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger
E-paper screens can also be vulnerable to cyberattacks – a fact demonstrated recently in downtown Los Angeles. According to local news outlet KTLA, several …
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Op-Ed: The Dirty Secret About Compliance and Digital Signage Security
August 23, 2025 by Florian Rotberg
In a provocative op-ed, Screenly Co-Founder Viktor Petersson exposes a critical blind spot in digital signage security: the illusion of safety created by compliance …
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Linutop Releases New Version of Its Lightweight OS
June 27, 2025 by Antonia Hamberger
The French software company Linutop has announced the release of Linutop OS 25, an operating system that is designed to convert standard x86 PCs …
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FAFO: Fired Disney World Manager Gets Three Years Jail For Monkeying With Park Menu Boards
May 9, 2025 by Dave Haynes
In a clear example of F*** Around and Find Out, a former Walt Disney World employee who responded to his firing by using his …
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Using MagicINFO Server? A Vulnerability With Maximum Severity Discovered (And Patched)
May 1, 2025 by Dave Haynes
I only reluctantly wade into cybersecurity stuff, because much of it is way the hell over my empty head. But this seems like something …
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That Canadian QSR’s Menu Displays Were Compromised, Taken Over, Using Phishing
April 17, 2025 by Dave Haynes
I’ve not seen anything formally from the operator or its suppliers about that system-wide hack last week of digital menu displays at a Canadian …
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Some 300 Stores In QSR Chain See Menu Displays Hacked By Pro-Palestine Activists
April 10, 2025 by Dave Haynes
Hacks of digital screens happens here and there, but a recent one involving a Canadian QSR chain was particularly bad because it appears to …
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Proto’s Virtual Presence Healthcare Solutions Now HIPAA-Compliant
March 12, 2025 by Dave Haynes
Marketing of display products that claim some type of hologram-ish visual effect has focused heavily on the whiz-bangery of the experience, and it is …
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Chicago Highway Billboards Hacked; Ads Swapped For Anti-Semitic Messages
October 17, 2024 by Dave Haynes
Let’s assume the IT team at Outfront Media is CLOSELY reviewing its software security in the wake of a hack Wednesday of several digital …
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How Do You Market An Important But Profoundly Dull CMS Feature? Make A Disco Song About It.
October 3, 2024 by Dave Haynes
Quite regularly now I get emails from companies with press releases about how their software platform has adopted some security protocol or completed some …
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StratosMedia Adds TLS Authentication To Its Platform’s Security Measures
October 2, 2024 by Dave Haynes
I am wading into a thick patch of technical weeds here, and already feeling stuck, so will mostly just relay word that the Australia-based …
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