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We just installed a new cryo-electron microscope. It was an expensive piece of equipment. It's also very sensitive. It is not connected to the internet. It is
by COGlory 5y ago
We just installed a new cryo-electron microscope. It was an expensive piece of equipment. It's also very sensitive.
It is not connected to the internet. It is connected to a local network, but that local network is not bridged to the internet in any capacity.
It is hard to imagine that Thermo-Fisher was capable of realizing the security implications of having the controls connected to the internet, but a trans-national pipeline was not.
- tzs 5y agoAccording to what I read, the pipeline controls were secure and were not breached. It's the ordinary computers doing ordinary business stuff got pwned, and the company elected to shut down the pipeline themselves rather than try to operate it with the business (including its decision making processes) in chaos from the disruption.
- COGlory 5y agoThen at that point, the corporate network has to be considered critical infrastructure too, no?