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Jersey’s cyber chief is not telling you to unplug — he is asking why your fridge is online
Matt Palmer is careful about what he is and is not saying. The question he raises is the one the whole smart-appliance category has…
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The fridges were reachable from anywhere, on controllers past end of life, behind passwords experts call easily guessable
The attacks needed no new technique. European supermarket refrigeration is managed remotely, often by outside contractors, on controllers…
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Nobody has claimed Europe’s freezer attacks, and Brussels has started calling them deliberate
Days after supermarket refrigeration was turned up across Europe, investigators have named nobody and nobody has claimed it. Brussels has…
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Hackers turned on the defrost in 700 French supermarkets — freezers reached 50°C and some stores caught fire
No sophisticated code was needed. The controllers were old, unpatched and reachable from the internet — which describes a great deal of…
Technology
The owner of Hobbs, Whistles and Phase Eight is investigating a cyber-attack, and H&M is checking a separate claim by the group that hit the FBI
TFG London found an incident on Sunday affecting Phase Eight, Hobbs and Whistles. Separately H&M is investigating a claimed hack by…
Technology
Hackers sent a push notification to millions of Asos customers using the retailer’s own app — a channel nobody treats as an attack surface
Criminals used Asos’s own notification system to push a message to potentially millions of phones. The NCSC, marking ten years, offered the…
Technology
Amazon shut the door on Meta’s shopping agent, and a reservations site locked a user for booking 300 tables an hour
Meta’s Muse has been downloaded 2.5 million times and partners with Walmart, Sephora and Expedia. Amazon blocked it outright. The fight is…
World
A city that declared war on its empty shops is filling them from the top floors down
Aberdeen’s Union Street was once packed with shoppers from across north-east Scotland. The council is now filling vacant units directly and…
Technology
The Foodpanda case turns on a slip of paper every supplier in Bangladesh signs and nobody keeps
Strip out the warrants and the court and what is left is a fight about Return to Vendor slips and deductions — the ordinary plumbing of…
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A Dutch court has banned Lidl from selling Birkenstock lookalikes, at €5,000 a day if it does not comply
The supermarket must stop selling copies of five Birkenstock models in the Netherlands, hand over sales data and pay compensation. The…
World
A $178 jumper with the Nvidia boss’s face on it, worn the way you would wear a football shirt
Natalie Fratto does not work for Nvidia. She owns a woollen jumper carrying a cartoon of its chief executive, and compares it to her All…
Technology
Point Google Lens at a product on the shelf and it shows the price, reviews and whether the shop next door has it cheaper — in the US, for now
With location sharing on, Lens now recognises a product photographed in a physical shop and returns its details, buyer reviews, price and…