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The BBC reports that several Target stores in the US have had their public address systems hacked, resulting in explicit pornographic audio being broadcast across the stores, in some cases for more than 15 minutes at a time.
An email obtained by the BBC, sent by company bosses to Target store managers across the US on Friday afternoon, outlines a weakness in the store's PA system being used to carry out the prank.I've removed a key detail for obvious reasons.
"Non-Target team members are attempting to access the intercom system by calling stores and requesting to be connected to line [xxxx]," it reads. "If connected, callers have control of the intercom until they hang up. We are actively working to limit intercom access to the Guest Services phone only. In the meantime, inform all operators to not connect any calls to line [xxxx]."
So in other words, if you ring up Target and ask to be put through to a certain extension, you're suddenly live on the PA system for as long as you like. Hardly the hack of the century, granted, but a reminder that there are people out there that will find even the most obscure vulnerabilities and exploit them.
I don't condone breaching computer systems but I guess that's one way to draw attention to vulnerabilities. Too bad they didn't pick something more kid-friendly. Like broadcasting that for the next 60 minutes there would be an 80% discount on everything in the store.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday October 19 2015, @04:14PM
That's pretty moronic.
That's pretty harsh, AC.
First thing to pop in my mind was I got three monitors on my desk, for the LOLs I gotta start some pr0n on one monitor while shopping Amazon on the other. It wouldn't be hard to do, and it would be a new experience. Its worth a try.
On the other hand I do agree with AC that people who are really old, like my parents, used to buy stuff like Carlin and Cosby standup routines on vinyl LP records and listen to them on record players. Unless they found funny pr0n, I'm thinking some vintage 40 year old George Carlin would have been way funnier than simple pr0n. Carlin expounding on the seven swear words or whatever that routine specifically was would have been pretty funny at a Target store.
Its interesting that in the "old days" just J. Random Normie civilian probably had a mass market comedy record, AFAIK recordings of standup routines died out in the 60s/70s I've never heard of modern standup comedy on cds, for example. I tried amazon (without pr0n accompaniment) and can't find any, all I can find is CD soundtracks of crappy 2010s era comedy movie releases. So I can find the soundtrack for "the runaway bride" but I can't find a 2010s standup comedy routine on cd.
(Score: 2) by joshuajon on Monday October 19 2015, @06:29PM
Are you joking? There's an entire section on Amazon called Stand-up Comedy [amazon.com]. It only has a couple of thousand albums though, so I can see how you'd miss it.
(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday October 19 2015, @09:01PM
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Monday October 19 2015, @08:58PM
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