<div dir="ltr"><div>At one time the famous Windows Blue Screen of Death was frequent enough to reveal the many locations and services that used Windows. There was a giant BSOD in Times Square NY at one point.</div><div><br></div><div><a href="http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/10/09/blue-screen-of-death-in-unexpected-locations/">http://royal.pingdom.com/2008/10/09/blue-screen-of-death-in-unexpected-locations/</a> has some examples<br></div><div><br></div>re security -t hose illuminated road signs on trailers that are used to inform or divert traffic are regularly hacked, as they often still have the default password or a common simple password. <div><br><div><a href="http://jalopnik.com/5141430/how-to-hack-an-electronic-road-sign">http://jalopnik.com/5141430/how-to-hack-an-electronic-road-sign</a> has a range of examples, and some (US) information on why they are often insecure.<br></div></div><div><br></div><div>You'd need to be careful discussing this with students (as with all security issues) but someone has to take the message forward about security.</div><div><br></div><div>ken</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Apr 17, 2015 at 2:49 PM, Roland Gesthuizen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rgesthuizen@gmail.com" target="_blank">rgesthuizen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>During 2008, I briefly amused myself with a price-checking terminal in a popular department store in the States whilst my wife was happily buying jeans that were on sale. Lacking a smart phone, I poked around the various menu option, the application halted and suddenly crashed. I suddenly found myself in a security hole where I could drop to a file explorer window. To my surprise, the device was running WIndows-Lite, a similarly primative OS. I could walk up and down the entire file tree, looking at the folder names. I could not see the contents but did have the odd privilege of making folders. From memory, I created a root level folder called “Please Secure Me”, took some souvenir photographs and departed when I was handed an armful of freshly purchased jeans.</div><div><br></div><div>I was trying to remember a remark that Harry Harrison once made about Stainless Steel Rats that live in technologically advanced civilisations.</div><div><br></div><div>
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<br><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div class="h5"><div>On 17 Apr 2015, at 12:42 pm, Mark <<a href="mailto:mark@vceit.com" target="_blank">mark@vceit.com</a>> wrote:</div><br></div></div><div><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr">Found in my travels. This is from 2014, which makes the story even more chilling in 2015.<div><br></div><div><i>Banks everywhere are in a race against time to upgrade their ATMs before they become hot targets for hackers.<br><br><b>An estimated 95% of American bank ATMs run on Windows XP</b>, and Microsoft is killing off tech support for that operating system on April 8 [2014]. That means Microsoft (MSFT) will no longer issue security updates to patch holes in Windows XP, leaving those ATMs exposed to new kinds of cyberattacks.</i><div><br></div><div><a href="http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/04/technology/security/atm-windows-xp/" target="_blank">http://money.cnn.com/2014/03/04/technology/security/atm-windows-xp/</a><br></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><i><br></i></div><div><span style="font-size:12.6666669845581px">>> Witty sig goes HERE <<</span></div><div><br></div><div>Mark Kelly</div><div>mark AT vceit DOT com</div><div><a href="http://vceit.com/" target="_blank">http://vceit.com</a></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
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