Hackers reportedly changed temperature settings on refrigeration equipment used by the French Blood Establishment, EFS, from around −30°C to 110°C after targeting its cooling service provider, Coolworld.
No it doesn’t but it shows that there are monitoring systems in place to catch that in time to neutralise its effects. Don’t you think that is relevant information to include for context?
The question is why IT didn’t employ some Security 101 on these things. FFS, just about no public facing interface should be locked only by a user/pass, and one would hope it’s firewalled off and invisible in the first place.
Context: “France’s Health Ministry said staff detected the abnormal temperatures in time and that the incident caused no operational consequences.”
So while this was a serious incident, controls did actually work. The comments here read as if no one is aware of that.
Comment first. Open link maybe. Actually read the article hardly ever.
That doesn’t take away the question how this is possible in the first place. Why do these freezers even have an internet connection to begin with?
No it doesn’t but it shows that there are monitoring systems in place to catch that in time to neutralise its effects. Don’t you think that is relevant information to include for context?
The question is why IT didn’t employ some Security 101 on these things. FFS, just about no public facing interface should be locked only by a user/pass, and one would hope it’s firewalled off and invisible in the first place.