{"id":87,"date":"2021-10-17T21:08:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-18T01:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/?p=87"},"modified":"2021-10-17T21:08:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T01:08:15","slug":"rickroll-grad-prank-exposes-exterity-iptv-bug","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/2021\/10\/17\/rickroll-grad-prank-exposes-exterity-iptv-bug\/","title":{"rendered":"Rickroll Grad Prank Exposes Exterity IPTV Bug"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">I thought this was a pretty funny, although risky prank, that took advantage of a zero day vulnerability in Exterity&#8217;s IPTV system.\u00a0 Minh Duong, a former student at Township High School District 214, identified this vulnerability and was able to take control of every TV within the district.\u00a0 This allowed him to pull off the \u201cBig Rick\u201d which played Rick Astley\u2019s classic \u201cNever Gonna Give You Up\u201d on every IPTV across the district.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Exterity IPTV system runs networked Projectors and TVs across the Township School District.\u00a0 The TV players can receive serial commands via a web interface and an SSH server which allows for centralized control. Duong noticed this set-up earlier on in highschool and was able to exploit the vulnerability, but didn\u2019t do much with it initially.\u00a0 He later got the idea for the \u201cBig Rick\u201d as a senior prank.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Duong was very clear that he was lucky that the administration didn\u2019t pursue criminal charges against him for unauthorized access.\u00a0 He notes in the article that people should\u00a0 \u201cnever access other systems in an unauthorized manner without permission.\u201d\u00a0 The vulnerability has been reported to the manufacturer, although it\u2019s unclear if this has been fixed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Author: Becky Bracken<\/p>\n<p>Published: October 14, 2021<\/p>\n<p>Link: https:\/\/threatpost.com\/rickroll-exterity-iptv-bug\/175491\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I thought this was a pretty funny, although risky prank, that took advantage of a zero day vulnerability in Exterity&#8217;s IPTV system.\u00a0 Minh Duong, a former student at Township High School District 214, identified this vulnerability and was able to take control of every TV within the district.\u00a0 This allowed him to pull off the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-87","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-8","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":88,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87\/revisions\/88"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}