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Austrian ski lift open to Internet hackers
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

Officials from the city of Innsbruck in Austria have shut down a local ski lift after two security researchers found its control panel open wide on the Internet, and allowing anyone to take control of the ski lift's operational settings.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ski-lift-in-austria-left-control-panel-open-on-the-internet/


Last edited by Poster: A snowHead on Fri 27-04-18 16:44; edited 1 time in total
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 Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person

blimey!!
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

That's not a news story I particularly expected to hear about... Shocked
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under a new name wrote:
That's not a news story I particularly expected to hear about... Shocked

Any more than your car can be hacked and taken over?
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 Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

I'm only surprised that they've only found the one.

I also don't find this (from the article) an especially surprising coincidence, what with Doppelmayr being the worlds largest ski lift manufacturer...
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Coincidences don't stop here, as both the Patscherkofelbahn and Gudauri ski lifts were from the same vendor, local Austrian firm Doppelmayr.
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Not the only problem with that lift either rolling eyes

Too expensive, badly placed so the föhn shuts it down 2-3 days every week (causes big problems according to friends who ski instruct there, as most of the other old lifts were removed when they built it, and the destroyed the view from a lovely old hut by plonking the new top station down right in front of it.
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 Then you can post your own questions or snow reports...
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I would not be surprised if there are a lot more lifts that have not had their factory default passwords changed. That happens regularly in general business systems, even in companies with reasonably sophisticated computer security practices and tools.

In the end, it is possible to hack pretty much anything that is connected to a network. It is just a question of time, effort, and resources.
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