[Info-vax] VMS and the Internet of Things (IoT)

[Kerry Main]

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> Of Bob Koehler via Info-vax
> Sent: 14-Sep-16 9:45 AM
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> Subject: Re: [Info-vax] VMS and the Internet of Things (IoT)
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Another interesting article .. a company's data was being stolen
via a soda machine that had been installed internally. 

http://bit.ly/2eshdNP
"What had happened, Coffey said, was that the company had a new
soft drink vending machine installed and because the machine had
both a credit card reader and was able to automatically order
replenishment, it was connected to the company network. What
nobody thought about was that the soda machine, like most IoT
devices, had no security.

When the security staff discovered that data was being stolen
from the company, they learned that data was first being copied
from the company servers to the soda machine enabling the hackers
to transfer the data to their own servers.

This happened because there was no coordination when the soda
machine was attached to the network and nobody realized that the
machine should be put outside of the company firewall, separate
from corporate network. And, of course, nobody was monitoring the
data transfers from the soda machine because it was, after all,
just a soda machine"


Regards,

Kerry Main
Kerry dot main at starkgaming dot com