www/proprietary proprietary-insecurity.html

[Atul Murali]

CVSROOT:        /web/www
Module name:    www
Changes by:     Atul Murali <atulm>     17/04/01 03:28:08

Modified files:
        proprietary    : proprietary-insecurity.html 

Log message:
        [#1204664] Add Miele dishwasher insecurity.

CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-insecurity.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.50&r2=1.51

Patches:
Index: proprietary-insecurity.html
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RCS file: /web/www/www/proprietary/proprietary-insecurity.html,v
retrieving revision 1.50
retrieving revision 1.51
diff -u -b -r1.50 -r1.51
--- proprietary-insecurity.html 28 Mar 2017 17:47:16 -0000      1.50
+++ proprietary-insecurity.html 1 Apr 2017 07:28:08 -0000       1.51
@@ -27,6 +27,17 @@
 deliberately, and <em>the users are helpless to fix them</em>.</p>
 
 <ul>
+<li>
+<p>When Miele's Internet of Stings hospital disinfectant dishwasher is
+<a 
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/a-hackable-dishwasher-is-connecting-hospitals-to-the-internet-of-shit";>connected
 to the Internet,
+its security is crap</a>.</p>
+
+<p>For example, a cracker can gain access to the dishwasher's filesystem, 
+infect it with malware, and force the dishwasher to launch attacks on other
+devices in the network. Since these dishwashers are used in hospitals, such
+attacks could potentially put hundreds of lives at risk.</p>
+
+</li>
 <li><p>WhatsApp has a feature that 
     <a 
href="https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/13/encrypted-messaging-platform-whatsapp-denies-backdoor-claim/";>
       has been described as a &ldquo;back door&rdquo;</a>
@@ -431,7 +442,7 @@
 
 <p class="unprintable">Updated:
 <!-- timestamp start -->
-$Date: 2017/03/28 17:47:16 $
+$Date: 2017/04/01 07:28:08 $
 <!-- timestamp end -->
 </p>
 </div>