How could this be now? Well, the journalist had received a tip from a Rotterdammer who had seen at Rijnmond last year how someone from the city with a new system changed the lighting of the bridge via an iPad.
The informant found through Shodan, a search engine that searches for poorly secured devices, that the network connection of the lighting of the Erasmus Bridge was open. If you went to the internet address of the system, you were shown a login page, writes Daniel Verlaan. “But with the right gate behind it, you had immediate access.” Egg, as they say above the Moerdijk.
That way he ended up on a mobile website, where he could simply choose the colors of the lighting: white, “Rotterdam” (green-white), the Dutch flag and so on. So did Verlaan too.
He had it filmed and released this security leak after he had informed the municipality of Rotterdam and that the leak in the system had been closed. Or better: the system has now simply been taken offline; the lighting can only be controlled on site.
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