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The French Freezer Hack Was Not the First: What Supermarket Freezers Teach Us About OT Security

Hackers heated the freezers of about 700 French supermarkets to 50°C, causing tens of millions of euros in damage. Most hit controllers were old, end-of-life products that can no longer be patched. The same kind of attack happened before: freezers failed in American military supermarkets this summer. What now?

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Behind the Hack: the Unlocked Storage Container

A public dirt road led us straight to an unlocked storage container. Once inside, we plugged in a computer, scanned the network, found a PLC and rebooted it. This stopping a crane without any alerts. No passwords, no monitoring, no barriers.

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Behind the Hack: How Audio Visual Equipment like ClickShare became a Hacker's Gateway

In a recent ethical hacking test, we gained full access to a company’s internal network... by simply plugging our laptop into their ClickShare assigned Ethernet port in one of their conference rooms. Your weakest link may be hiding behind your projector.

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Behind the Hack: the Conference Room Laptop

This is the story of a public guest laptop in a conference room where they offered hands-on product demos. It became the gateway for a full-scale corporate breach by our ethical hackers. The servers were secured. Employees used strong passwords. The network had a firewall. Still, we hacked their internal network.

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