Shop fridges and freezers across Europe hit by fresh suspected cyber-attack… incompetence is rampant. I was talking about this yesterday with my wife, and she, being the practical woman she is, said, “The first thing to do would be to disconnect the freezers from the Internet.” Wise woman.
“Unplug that damn network cable from the freezer!”
But it seems the geniuses have actually installed 4G/5G modems inside them.
Unplugging them from the network seems too difficult… “Idiocracy” is on the march…
In any case, the “National Cybersecurity Agency” (to quote Vannini, “Can you hear the quotation marks and the ‘y’?”) has come out with this “Urgent Verification and Mitigation Measures for Food Distribution and Cold Chain Operators” document (in Italian) which, for heaven’s sake, are all perfectly valid points, but frankly, it strikes me as a bit of a “state of the obvious.”