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Major Security Breach Found in Hospital and Supermarket Refrigeration Systems

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

upstart writes:

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, 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!

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  • (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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  • (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) Journal

    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...