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posted by martyb on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the chilling-effects dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Gaaark on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:49AM

    by Gaaark (41) on Sunday February 10 2019, @11:49AM (#799068) Journal

    Sour that cream! I dare you!
    ---lactose intolerants anonymous

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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:23PM (4 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:23PM (#799073)

    dont open this shit to the internet and you wont have this problem!

    • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:45PM

      by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:45PM (#799079) Homepage Journal

      My having lectured the Portland Startup Weekend on Engineering Ethics resulted in their calling 9-1-1 with the result that six of Portland's finest were tasked with guarding a Hackathon for the rest of the weekend.

      I Am Absolutely Serious.

      "Don't expose that shit to the Internet", indeed.

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      Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
    • (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:38PM (1 child)

      by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:38PM (#799096)

      A lot of this shit actually comes with it's very own DRM and demands to be connected to the internet to function :D

      • (Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday February 12 2019, @01:37AM

        by Azuma Hazuki (5086) on Tuesday February 12 2019, @01:37AM (#799865) Journal

        This is why we need a "+1 Scary But True" modifier. Ye gods...

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        I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
    • (Score: 1) by hopdevil on Monday February 11 2019, @06:17AM

      by hopdevil (3356) on Monday February 11 2019, @06:17AM (#799405)

      Oddly enough, this isn't enough to protect things that have no security. Anyone that wants access will get it. Maybe don't connect it to a network, disable IO, disconnect power and do a bunch of other things that make it unusable, then you might get lucky.
      I don't get the "hide your head in the sand" approach to security...

  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:42PM

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Sunday February 10 2019, @12:42PM (#799078) Homepage Journal

    You say that like it's a bad thing.

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    Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:32PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Sunday February 10 2019, @01:32PM (#799095)

    Oh Wow! jewish rats found unchanged passwords on the internet and are ready to tell the whole world about it.

    Jewish criminal rats breaking into shops to steal stuff is nothing new. Jews breaking into people's machines for the purpose of exploitation is nothing new.

    If they would go back to khazaria (or are sent to Madagascar), we can control them and no more harm will be caused to the world. We can live without them and we don't even have to change passwords any more.

  • (Score: 2) by VLM on Monday February 11 2019, @01:35PM

    by VLM (445) Subscriber Badge on Monday February 11 2019, @01:35PM (#799492)

    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.

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