Zombie road sign hacked

Zombie-loving hackers have been warning motorists of upcoming zombies via hacked electronic construction signs for about eight years. Jones said, "It's a victimless crime -- it's just changing something that can be undone really quickly.

And I don't think anyone's going to drive their car off the road when they see the sign. Compare that to how a hacked road sign was treated in Texas. The hacker commented "catch me if you can," but ABC13 claimed he has now turned himself in to authorities. Jalopnik , which took some heat for explaining how-to hack electronic road signs in the past, asked people to please not write something stupid.

Actually Jalopnik wrote, " Sign-hacking is apparently so simple even the least creative 4Chan member can do it. The blog i-hacked explained that these signs are so easily hacked because the instrument panels are left unlocked or the default passwords are not changed.

Sign Hacker comments varied from a hacked sign could endanger people lives, to what's the harm unless a sign was warning that a bridge was out? How-to's are all over the Net, but some of my favorites have been covered on Reddit. Last year, after a Miami road construction sign was changed from warning drivers that a street was closed to a potentially offensive "No Latinos.

Obviously, motorists knew the messages were supposed to be funny. There were no reports of people racing home to board up their windows and grab their shotguns. But transportation officials aren't laughing. The zombie messages are replacing legitimate safety warnings about road work and delays that motorists need to see, she said. In Bellevue, for instance, the altered sign's bright amber letters were supposed to be flashing information about road work on the highway ahead, said Melanie Coon, a Washington Department of Transportation spokeswoman.

Coon said hackers have figured out a simple weakness in the electric signs' security and posted it on the Internet. According to the blog i-hacked. Listen now. Previous : Fannie Mae worker accused of planting malware timebomb. Next : Podcast: Cybercrime on Facebook and Twitter. Sophos Cloud Optix Monitor 25 cloud assets for free. Recommended reads. Oct Dec