Police Cruisers Get Spam Pop Ups
from the how-nice dept
Police cruisers these days come equipped with computers, that often have wireless connections back to various databases to make the whole “fighting crime” thing more efficient. Of course, some of those wireless connections are standard internet connections that have been set up specifically for the police – but could be used to access the internet if configured incorrectly. Over in Philadelphia, it appears that’s what happened, as someone accidentally ended up with some sort of adware downloaded into the system that started sending bogus Viagra pop-up ads onto the screens of officers around the city. The police department blamed Verizon for leaving the system open to the internet, but insist that the system is not open to hackers and that this didn’t impact police response times in any way. In fact, they claim that most officers thought it was an amusing joke being played on them.
