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'Unprecedented' Cyberattack cripples supermarket fridges across Europe as hackers activate automatic defrosting — delivery and store prices also impacted by incident
www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/unprecedented-cyberattack-cripples-supermarket-fridges-across-europe-as-hackers-activate-automatic-defrosting-delivery-and-store-prices-also-impacted-by-incident
Replying to @return2ozma@lemmy.world
This is exactly what happened to the US Army about a month ago.
militarytimes.com/…/dod-confirms-refrigeration-di…
Why the fuck are all of your fridges controllable from the Internet? We didn’t have to build such a stupid, stupid society.
Replying to @eestileib@sh.itjust.works
Because shops don’t want to run hardware on site, so they outsource the hosting of management and monitoring to the cheapest contractor. Unsurprisingly they don’t spend on security.