Chicago Highway Billboards Hacked; Ads Swapped For Anti-Semitic Messages October 17, 2024 by Super User 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 billboards in the Chicago area, with booked ads replaced by anti-semitic messages linked to the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A Palestinian flag was used as the background for messages that were overtly anti-Israel. You …
How Do You Market An Important But Profoundly Dull CMS Feature? Make A Disco Song About It. October 3, 2024 by Super User Quite regularly now I get emails from companies with press releases about how their software platform has adopted some security protocol or completed some certification process. While that stuff is VERY important, it doesn’t make for the most compelling posts. And it is also pretty hard for the company to market effectively. Which brings me …
StratosMedia Adds TLS Authentication To Its Platform’s Security Measures October 2, 2024 by Super User 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 CMS software firm StratosMedia has added on to its stack of security measures with a certificate-based authentication measure called TLS. This kind of security measure uses certificates to verify the identity …
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, Delta’s hub, is full of people sleeping wherever they can, and the queue to the help desk is more than a mile long. Thousands of flights are grounded, and there are …
Screenly First Digital Signage CMS Software Company To Sign Multinational Secure By Design Pledge July 31, 2024 by Super User With the global IT outage a very recent memory, and still not fully resolved for some CrowdStrike customers, software security and IT best practises are now (or certainly should be) big discussion points across organizations and industries. Numerous digital signage CMS software providers have had announcements in the past year or two about attaining security …
Omnivex Does A Lot of Windows-based Digital Signage Networks, And CTO Says They’re On Top Of It July 19, 2024 by Super User When I first learned this morning of the CrowdStrike update that was causing Blue Screens Of Death on computers running Windows (and CrowdStrike security software), I started thinking about the implications for digital signage software vendors that have scores, hundreds or even thousands of endpoints running Microsoft’s operating system. The company that most comes to …
Photos And Videos: How Windows/Crowdstrike Issues Affecting Airlines And Airports July 19, 2024 by Super User It is VERY difficult these days to discern what is real and what is the cheeky fakery of someone who knows their way around image and video editing tools. But poking around online for a while reveals some real examples of problems brought on by the Windows/CrowdStrike issues that developed overnight. Most notably, in the …
Running Digital Signage Networks On Windows? Pour A Three-Finger Drink Instead Of Morning Coffee Before Reading This July 19, 2024 by Super User People on the America side of the Atlantic are sipping coffee and taking in news this morning that enterprise devices running Windows on networks – like digital signage media players using that OS – were blue-screened if they also were using security software from CrowdStrike It is not a Windows error directly, but one caused …
IT Security In Digital Signage: Audio From Digital Signage Summit Europe 2024, With Google, Trison UK June 5, 2024 by Super User I managed to talk the AV team running the main conference room at the recent Digital Signage Summit in Munich to give me the audio off the board for three of the sessions I either moderated or spoke on. The first was focused on IT security, which I will admit is NOT an area I’m …
Planar Meets Tight Cybersecurity Standards For Pair Of “Smart” Connected Display Families May 8, 2024 by Super User Security questions are now pretty central to planning and sourcing technologies for display networks, however the focus would quite logically be on the most obvious points of vulnerability – the software, servers and play-out hardware. But what about the displays, if they’re connected and termed as smart? Specialty display manufacturer Planar has announced a couple …
