Hackers hit French national blood bank

RobotToaster

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

fithisux

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

retinaros

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.

elmer2

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

Tryvrsakjo10

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.

smallnix

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

mainecoder

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.

kristjank

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.

cricketfanatic

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

marsknight

Le Canard Enchaîné is a satirical paper!

amelius

I see a new market in little VPN devices.

ReptileMan

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

lordnacho

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?

arttaboi

This is out there!

tedggh

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.

harrouet

Hard to imagine something more unethical than that.

mg794613

Stop attaching everything to the internet...

JdeBP

Closer to the source than an English newspaper: * https://lecanardenchaine.fr/police-justice/55332-les-hackers...

erremerre

I think this is probably something good to happen because what it is not normal, is that a company, any company, can sell you a half assed product, call it End Of Life with flagrant issues still happening, clean their hands, and leave you with the problem or having to buy another product, with the environmental cost of it plus the economical cost of it. And the only solution, it is to enforce company to offer updates and support a product for at least half a century, and enforce that any code of that product must become available and modifiable in case the company is unable to provide with such support. If that means that company produce less products, so it is. I am tired as a consumer of having to throw away completely good products just for this reason, from ASUS routers, to car. Hopefully whatever legislation that happens to solve this situation with the industry will also affect consumer products (or at least, we could adquire industrial products instead).

jakub_g

Alternative source without paywall: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c8vgxyvz6y9ro