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French supermarket smart fridges seen as cyberattack risk

Original: Thinking about the # French # supermarkets and their # cyber fridges and freezers. If the attacker had fluctuated the te

A security-focused commentary is drawing attention to connected refrigeration units in French supermarkets, arguing that a sophisticated attacker could have quietly fluctuated temperatures and falsified monitoring logs — in the manner of the Stuxnet operation against Iranian uranium centrifuges — without detection, potentially spooding large quantities of food and endangering public health.

Why now: Concerns are growing about vulnerabilities in internet-connected supermarket refrigeration systems that could be exploited to cause undetected harm.

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• Thinking about the # French # supermarkets and their # cyber fridges and freezers. If the attacker had fluctuated the temperatures and faked the logs the way the US tempered with the Iranian Uranium centrifuges, they could have gone undetected and made an awful lot of people… · drajt@fosstodon.org · 1

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