Woolworths’ supermarket fridges and freezers are not connected to the internet so are safe from cyberattacks like the one turning up temperatures and spoiling food across Europe. Aldi says it has measures in place to prevent that kind of chaos, while Coles declines to say.
Cyber specialists said that Australian organisations used similar control and remote management systems as those targeted by hackers who changed the temperatures of cold storage in supermarkets across Belgium, Luxembourg, Sweden, Ireland and Estonia, and were similarly vulnerable to attacks because of out-of-date security updates.
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