Most instances of hacking rely on social engineering because the human element is typically the weakest point of any system. Real life isn’t a movie, hacking is a hell of a lot more mundane and the ways hackers achieve their goals are often as silly as this case where someone literally left a door open. So yes, this sign was “hacked.” And yes, it was the result of a very stupid mistake on the part of an employee of the NCDOT. The term isn’t dependent on the difficulty or complexity of the task. It just refers to finding a vulnerability and exploiting it.
No shit. Fucking Stuxnet was achieved by dropping a thumbdrive outside the building and letting a naive, curious iranian scientist plug it into their airlocked computer network.
Then it played looped video while it destroyed everything. Just like a shitty Mission Impossible movie. In real life. Dead serious.
Most instances of hacking rely on social engineering because the human element is typically the weakest point of any system. Real life isn’t a movie, hacking is a hell of a lot more mundane and the ways hackers achieve their goals are often as silly as this case where someone literally left a door open. So yes, this sign was “hacked.” And yes, it was the result of a very stupid mistake on the part of an employee of the NCDOT. The term isn’t dependent on the difficulty or complexity of the task. It just refers to finding a vulnerability and exploiting it.
No shit. Fucking Stuxnet was achieved by dropping a thumbdrive outside the building and letting a naive, curious iranian scientist plug it into their airlocked computer network.
Then it played looped video while it destroyed everything. Just like a shitty Mission Impossible movie. In real life. Dead serious.