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Fridges in French supermarkets hit by cyber attack
www.bbc.com/news/articles/crq5nzxv9q4yoReplying to @Orwi@programming.dev
with a spokesman saying that another 100 shops were urgently disconnected from the internet to prevent the same thing happening to them.
Maybe… just maybe, I know this sounds crazy, but hear me out here. Maybe they shouldn’t have been connected to the internet in the first place?
Replying to @jaybone@lemmy.zip
They’re connected to the internet so they can alert someone when they fail.
Replying to @fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com
But why would it need a password if it’s polled or dropping it’s temp read to a central monitor? Sometimes these hosts have way too many “features” for no thought out reason.
I worked at a security company and one guy called the SNMP community string its “password,” and it pissed me off. I just had to bite my tongue. They also stored a backup password in the Windows global environment, which also pissed me off.