- bitteroldcoot@piefed.socialEnglish3 days
What idiot connects a commercial refrigerator to the internet?
Or your home refrigerator
or your toothbrush.
Fucking idiots.
- bitteroldcoot@piefed.socialEnglish3 days
Toto Japanese company, the electronic components — circuit boards, sensors, heating elements, control panels, nozzles — are primarily manufactured in Thailand and Malaysia, with some also in China.
Sanitronics International B.V. is from Netherlands, but everything electronic is made in china.
3 daysIt’s almost like having basic appliances connected to the internet is a bad idea. Outbound sensor data? Yeah, ok, maybe. But inbound commands?
I suspect these controllers were mostly being used for telemetry (getting notified if they lose power), not remote control. But they were still vulnerable to zero-days if not updated. Kind of the same story as all the other IoT stuff that has turned out to be vulnerable.
- 🌸𝓯𝓵𝓸𝔀𝓮𝓻🌸@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 days
You keep a hammer next to the electronics. If they act up, they get smashed. That’s all the security needed.
- CheeseNoodle@lemmy.worldEnglish3 days
Not if there’s no control hardware for it to be connected too, a telemetry sensor in no way needs the ability to even influence the mechanical function of the device.
- abbadon420@sh.itjust.worksEnglish3 days
A large Dutch supermarket chain is also currently suffering a cyber attack
I think it’s a funny warning by a good guy. The message is “get your shit together now before an all-out war”.
