FT broadcasts short segment on the fridge-hacking story
4 Nov 2 5:30 PM · 9d ago · 1 article · 1 video · 2 sources · development 4 of 4
The Financial Times aired a short video segment flagging supermarket fridges as hackers' new target, pointing viewers to further FT coverage.
“Hackers have found a new target: supermarket fridges.”
Financial TimesAhold Delhaize Affected supermarket groupMoelans Spokesperson managing the Belgian refrigeration responseCarrefour Affected supermarket chainSpar Affected supermarket chain
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first by The Independent, 9d ago
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The fix is really not that hard. No over the air firmware updates (use usb/memory stick/etc). And have the WiFi/bluetooth chip have a one way connection to the control chip. So it can get reports, but not communicate or control the master chip. That means no editing of settings, and no “fun” updates. But who really needs to do that over there…
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Good point. According to Reddit, the US could magically fix all its problems if every citizen across all 50 states somehow simultaneously organized a revolution because the French did it a few times throughout history.
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I can see the use case for groceries who need to monitor the fridges to make sure they are operational, but they should either be not accessible from the outside Internet of course, which these were.
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and they should have done it after the first hacking report! I bet there are still wide open systems out there
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