Comment on Shop freezers in seven European countries hit by cyber-attack. Millions of euros worth of food had to be thrown away. Some US military bases possibly impacted by the same attack.

The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

• OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  It might be nice to have an internet connection to monitor the freezer. Check temps, keep a temperature log so you can tell if it ever thawed out due to a temporary power outage or something.

  But I see absolutely no reason why a freezer’s control circuitry needs to be connected to the internet. There’s no reason you’d ever need to turn it on or off remotely … or even really change the temperature remotely. Any time you need to turn it on or off or change the temperature, it’s because you’re taking food in or out of it … which has to be done manually, with physical access to the machine, so you might as well adjust the temperature manually while doing that.

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  • The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    In restaurants there needs to be a thermometer installed and a routine check of temp. recorded manually…if anything that would be a redundancy that corporate wants to have to keep the middle managers busy

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• Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  Right?

  Think maybe THIS will get all these places (any that have been hacked) to start taking isolation and security seriously?

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  • The_Che_Banana@beehaw.org ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I mean, the reports of people hacking into home temperature control units, fish tanks, etc. years ago apparently wasn’t enough warning.

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  • daveyOsborn@infosec.pub ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I suppose they would file an insurance claim and not give a fuck. It’s no money out of the pocket of the bean counter who decides infosec costs more than it saves. OTOH, hopefully insurance companies would react by charging a higher premium to grocers who have cloud-controllable refrigeration and no proper infosec. And then maybe /that/ would turn this around.

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• marighost@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I read somewhere that mentioned the freezer temperatures are controlled from the head office, via the network. If that’s true, that’s why VPN tunnels with access control are so important!!!

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