Highway Sign Hacking Hits Miami

You might remember a rash of highway message sign hacking a few months ago,warning of zombies in Austin, Texas and Collinsville, Illinois and of raptors (the prehistoric birds, not the Ford pickup).

Well, now the message is getting racist, or political, or both. Early morning drivers on Palmetto in Miami ran across the above sign and the highway department had to come out and turn it off. Except it kept rebooting. Authorities finally had to turn the sign away from drivers while they worked to erase the memory.

Highway Technologies of Illinois owns the sign and is renting it to the highway department. They say they're using "all their resources to find out how the sign was hacked and who did it."

The likely charge, vandalism. Though someone will undoubtedly try to build a hate crimes charge in there, too.

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100 Cars Disabled By Remote Control

More than 100 customers of a Texas used car dealership found their cars disabled or their alarms going off uncontrollably this week.

They'd signed up for a system that allows for remote electronic reminders that their payments were due...but a ticked-off fired employee allegedly hacked his way into the system and got his revenge.

Wired has the story here.

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