Hackers hit French national blood bank

Posted by blaze33 |2 hours ago |56 comments

harrouet 15 minutes ago[1 more]

Hard to imagine something more unethical than that.

RobotToaster an hour ago[3 more]

Fridges shouldn't be on the internet, doubly so when it's one storing vital medical supplies.

tedggh 23 minutes ago[1 more]

This is easily fixed with data diodes. I can see future industrial appliances and other critical IoT devices with embedded units. You use the read/write port for initial configuration then the diode for permanent monitoring, making it physical impossible to send data to the equipment.

mg794613 3 minutes ago

Stop attaching everything to the internet...

kristjank an hour ago[1 more]

Not only freezers, but a lot of other appliances have become IoT-integrated to simplify inspection procedures. Instead of the health department looking at each freezer/smoke detector/gas detector/emergency floodlight individually, you can just present them with a report from your building's safety system. Older systems were mostly some industrial bus and are off-grid by default, but new ones are usually smarter, and as a result, IP-connected.

lordnacho 36 minutes ago[1 more]

Are these IoT devices actually directly on the internet, in the sense of exposing a port on a public IP address (perhaps behind NAT)?

Because you'd think it would work to just have them on a VPN, and then they aren't responsive to any non-authenticated internet traffic?

Tryvrsakjo10 an hour ago[1 more]

The advent of AI and its ability to find vulnerabilities so quickly is getting out of hand. Yesterday it was supermarket fridges now its fridges that store blood, they should never have been connected to the internet in the first place especially in these times with AI, but all of Europe needs to invest more into their cyber security systems they are anachronistic at this point.

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mainecoder an hour ago[3 more]

can someone please explain how they can heat the blood I understand they can stop the freezing but you cannot set the temperature of a refrigerator to a point where it literally heats the stuff inside since a refrigerator do not have the mean to warm objects inside it can only remove the heat.

elmer2 an hour ago[2 more]

We need to have a French Revolution for hackers that do this. One clobbering, and they will think twice.

marsknight an hour ago[3 more]

Le Canard Enchaîné is a satirical paper!

smallnix an hour ago[1 more]

I don't understand the 110. The blood was.. boiling??

amelius an hour ago[1 more]

I see a new market in little VPN devices.

ReptileMan an hour ago[1 more]

They had almost 3 weeks of warning since those attacks started. No excuses if they are not secured by now.

arttaboi 32 minutes ago

This is out there!

fithisux an hour ago[1 more]

It is either malicious incompetence or a red flag. No other explanation for me is satisfactory.

retinaros an hour ago[3 more]

we are a few attacks like this from a country interpreting it as a declaration of war. I have no doubts a developed country counter-intelligence cell can find which country is responsible for such a large scale attack. I wish they target countries like China instead of spineless france.

cricketfanatic an hour ago[2 more]

This is not looking good especially with so much red tape in Europe don’t know how they will deal with this…