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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Blue Screens Of Death Invade Planet Earth
August 6, 2024 by Viktor Petersson
Guest Post: Viktor Petersson, Screenly It’s Saturday morning. Emergency services in Alaska are knocked out, meaning you can’t even get through to 911. Atlanta, …
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Screenly First Digital Signage CMS Software Company To Sign Multinational Secure By Design Pledge
July 31, 2024 by Dave Haynes
With the global IT outage a very recent memory, and still not fully resolved for some CrowdStrike customers, software security and IT best practises …
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Omnivex Does A Lot of Windows-based Digital Signage Networks, And CTO Says They’re On Top Of It
July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes
When I first learned this morning of the CrowdStrike update that was causing Blue Screens Of Death on computers running Windows (and CrowdStrike security …
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Photos And Videos: How Windows/Crowdstrike Issues Affecting Airlines And Airports
July 19, 2024 by Dave Haynes
It is VERY difficult these days to discern what is real and what is the cheeky fakery of someone who knows their way around …
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