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All Your Coffee Are Belong To Us

http://it.slashdot.org/it/08/06/17/1941200.shtml

“Craig Wright discovered that the Jura F90 Coffee maker, with its honest-to-God Jura Internet Connection Kit, can be taken over by a remote attacker, who can cause the coffee to be weaker or stronger; change the amount of water per cup; or cause the machine to require service (call this one a DDoC). ‘Best yet, the software allows a remote attacker to gain access to the Windows XP system it is running on at the level of the user.’ An Internet-enabled, remote-controlled coffee-machine and XP backdoor — what more could a hacker ask for?”

June 18, 2008 - Posted by | Security

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