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Sweden’s Freezer Hack

A wave of attacks that left Swedish grocers and cafés throwing away food has exposed a security problem that reaches well beyond the freezer aisle.

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Odd Inge Teige
Nov 11

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Sweden’s National Cyber Security Centre had sent targeted warnings to businesses before cyberattacks disrupted grocery refrigeration on November 2. At a briefing in Stockholm on November 10, John Billow, the center’s director, said that the attacks mainly affected older systems from the same manufacturer and that weak pas…

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