The refrigeration systems were cranked up to 122 degrees Fahrenheit in at least a dozen countries.
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- spankysalmon@fedinsfw.appEnglish5 days
Really begs the question… Why are they connected to the internet at all??
- WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish5 days
Cheapest option for the vendor and supermarkets. Capitalism is the most efficient system… lol.
5 daysEven under capitalism it became very clear that it was not the cheapest option as leaving it connected causes many thousands of dollars in inventory losses.
- WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish4 days
90% of the decision makers who cut costs have already got paid, promoted, or left. They don’t care about the consequences because they won’t face them personally.
Internet connected can be useful in commercial environments. When designed properly it isn’t a issue unless someone is really motivated.
The problem is the lack of a Firewall and network partitioning. The vendor was extremely sloppy in the design and security configuration which made it trivial to attack.
- Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish5 days
I hope they aren’t, and we’re seeing the failure of securing the network they’re on.
Companies I’ve worked for keep different stuff on different networks, and to manage those things you either have to physically be connected to that network, or go through some kind of portal (secured with it’s own credentials) then have credentials for the management systems.
I’d bet all the attacked systems are on a fairly flat network, and the control systems (servers and management devices) are poorly secured with minimal credential policies.
- spankysalmon@fedinsfw.appEnglish5 days
Being connected through a portal is still connected to the internet.
It still explains nothing about why is it remotely necessary? A freezer and fridge do not need frequent adjustment. Their ‘monitoring’ can be done by extremely simple thermal regulation systems that have existed for decades upon decades. It’s not necessary what so ever.
They were literally exposed to the internet
Anyone could and still can connect to them
- 4 days
What’s that in normal European (and everyone else) units?
- Malgas@beehaw.orgEnglish4 days
It’s exactly 50°C, which probably means that the figure in the article was converted to fahrenheit by the author.
- L7HM77@sh.itjust.worksEnglish4 days
Patrick Lamplmair, CTO at the Austria-based cybersecurity firm Tributech, demonstrates the Peter Principle by not understanding what a process controller is, says a simple cut-in/cut-out w/ deadband logic should’ve known better, and probably thinks this could have been prevented by removing the image of a flame from the UI of the controller.
