Internet of Pings

If you can ping it - you can ding it!

Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cmwyvrgk9p0ro

The BBC reports:

'All this food is now useless': Piles of rubbish after shop freezers hit by cyber-attack

In dozens of supermarkets across several European countries, a huge amount of food has been dumped after refrigerators and freezers were targeted in a cyber-attack.

Belgium and Luxemburg saw some of the worst damage, with 40 Delhaize supermarkets affected, and incidents also took place in stores across Sweden, Ireland, the Netherlands, Estonia and Finland.

The wonder of the Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud computing - a haven for hackers.

Anything connected to the Internet is vulnerable to hacking even that state-of-the-art Internet fridge in your kitchen.

If you can ping it - you can ding it!

FNN predicts that AI will soon setup a market for you to request a hack of almost anything connected to the internet - for a fee of course.

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