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So what you’re saying is, this can’t have happened because nobody would be dumb enough to buy a convenient Internet-enabled smart device and then actually conne
by anderskaseorg 5y ago
So what you’re saying is, this can’t have happened because nobody would be dumb enough to buy a convenient Internet-enabled smart device and then actually connect it to the Internet:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/17/wannacry-ransomware-hit-real-medical-devices/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2017/05/17/wanna...
And also that this problem definitely won’t get worse as more and more of these devices are built on platforms that want to require you to sign in with a cloud service…
- Aerroon 5y agoOf course people are going to do silly things, but you can't protect people from stupidity. >And also that this problem definitely won’t get worse as more and more of these devices are built on platforms that want to require you to sign in with a cloud service… Which is why it's so important that not giving network access to medical machines becomes standard practice.
- ziml77 5y agoIt blows my mind that any would be accessible from the internet. These devices shouldn't be networked at all if possible. But at the very least they should be on their own network, preferably physically isolated instead of VLANs.