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Supermarket Freezers Across Europe Hit With Another Cyberattack (gizmodo.com)

submitted 6 days ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 18 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Supermarkets allow their freezers to connect to the internet so that maintenance and monitoring can occur remotely.

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[–] LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works 26 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Yeah. And VPN connections exist so maintenance and monitoring can take place without direct exposure. But alas...

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[–] urushitan@kakera.kintsugi.moe 4 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Yeah but that’s expensive to set up and C-Suites need more bonuses so

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[–] 01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 points 6 days ago (1 child)

Expensive? I bet it's less expensive than losing all your frozen inventory.

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[–] nieminen@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

That requires forethought though, you're giving c-suites too much credit.

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[–] LewdLemon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 6 days ago

I know you're being sarcastic. But for anyone coming here with a damaged irony sensor: no. Setting up a VPN comes at zero software costs (it's all open source software, unless you're keen on getting ripped off by some proprietary product) and a reasonably low cost in man hours for setting it up (we're talking single-digit to low double-digit hours here).

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[–] nyan@lemmy.cafe 12 points 6 days ago

Yeah, but you would think they would have gotten them off the Internet after the first time this happened, even if it means having to hire an extra person to keep an eye on them.

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