Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems
Submitted via IRC for SoyCow1984
Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems:
Israeli hackers and activists Noam Rotem and Ran L from Safety Detective research lab have uncovered a major security breach in temperature control systems manufactured by Resource Data Management, a Scotland-based remote monitoring solutions company.
These control systems are used by hospitals and supermarket chains all over the world, including Marks & Spencer, Ocado, Way-on, and many others.
A basic scan reveals hundreds of installations in the UK, Australia, Israel, Germany, the Netherlands, Malaysia, Iceland, and many other countries around the world. As each installation has dozens of machines under it, we're looking at many thousands of vulnerable machines.
(Score: 2) by VLM on Monday February 11 2019, @01:35PM
I like this story because it combines two bad ideas in an interesting way.
There's never been a situation where putting a thermostat on the internet is good, and there's never been a situation where putting a fridge on the internet is good, therefore some idiot combined both and put a fridge thermostat on the internet because maybe he was hoping for some kind of min-integer underflow where negative a zillion plus negative a zillion underflows to be a large positive number.
I'm sure the same rocket surgeon who project managed that bright idea will soon merge doorbell cameras (on the internet) with e-vibrators (on the internet) or merge cordless drills (on the internet) with hammers (on the internet). Its interesting to theorize just how dumb the combinations can get.