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[....] Nicole Eagan, CEO of cybersecurity company Darktrace, revealed Thursday that a casino fell victim to hackers thanks to a smart thermometer it was using to monitor the water of an aquarium they had installed in the lobby, Business Insider reported. The hackers managed to find and steal information from the casino's high-roller database through the thermometer.
"The attackers used that to get a foothold in the network," Eagan said at a Wall Street Journal panel. "They then found the high-roller database and then pulled that back across the network, out the thermostat, and up to the cloud."
That database may have included information about some of the unnamed casino's biggest spenders along with other private details, and hackers got a hold of it thanks to the internet of things.
Source: Hackers exploit casino's smart thermometer to steal database info
(Score: 5, Insightful) by SomeGuy on Monday April 16 2018, @08:55PM (3 children)
All I can really say is "I told you so". Internet of Things devices are security disasters just waiting to happen. Yet nobody sees any problems with this sort of thing.
A while back I went on a rant about how new Trane air conditioners virtually require their "smart" thermostats to operate 100% properly, and those will bitch like hell unless they are connected to your network. I even fully expect the option to use an "old" non-proprietary on/off thermostat will go away in a few more years.
Everyone should be demanding more simplicity from appliances, but instead all the idiots out there just want more blue LEDs.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 16 2018, @09:14PM (2 children)
This, exactly. Yet, we, as a nation, insist on hooking everything up to the internet. The hackers are demonstrating that an air gap may or may not be adequate to protect your "smart" devices - yet we don't even make them jump an air gap. Everything connected - why worry? We can pass another law, and it will be alright.
Hacking and gun control are so very much related. Only criminals will misuse either a gun, or a computer exploit. WTF is another law going to do for us? Criminals are already breaking multiple laws when they either shoot someone, or break into a casino's computers. Yet another law isn't going to deter either type of criminal.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday April 16 2018, @10:52PM (1 child)
Depends on the law. We could try, "Bust a deal, face the wheel".
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday April 17 2018, @08:16AM
Having to play Roulette as punishment? :-)