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Hackers Exploit Smart Thermometer to Steal Casino Information

posted by mrpg on Monday April 16 2018, @07:57PM   Printer-friendly
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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.

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Monday April 16 2018, @09:13PM (1 child)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Monday April 16 2018, @09:13PM (#667797) Homepage Journal

    I'm concerned that the day will come when IoT in the home is unavoidable, much as its impossible for me to ride public transit to work without being spied on by dozens of security cameras.

    However I am willing to concede that IoT has some valid applications in industry.

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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by Runaway1956 on Monday April 16 2018, @09:34PM

    by Runaway1956 (2926) Subscriber Badge on Monday April 16 2018, @09:34PM (#667808) Journal

    I'm not willing to make that concession. The only reason that many systems are connected to the same wires that your and my internet travels, is industry is run by cheap bastards. Ditto for the reason they use WIFI. Any damned fool can drive into your parking lot, or into the alley, and connect to your WIFI. Even if your WIFI is "secured" - war driving is a decades old game. Default root - password is so common, it laughable.

    Anyone who hooks his mission critical machines up to a network (with or without WIFI) that connects to the internet is fully deserving of whatever disaster befalls him. The law should investigate, up until the point they find mission critical on the interwebs. Then, they should just say, "Tough luck, Buddy, but there's nothing we can do!"