🥵 French Fridges Forced to 50°C

The Guardian: Hackers have forced the temperature of many French supermarket fridges up to 50C overnight, in an “unprecedented” cyber-attack affecting several hundred stores across the country, with fires and food losses reported. That's 122° F. The affected units “were running outdated firmware”, Danfoss said, adding that it had “long advised customers to keep supported systems updated with the latest firmware and to migrate legacy systems to current-generation solutions”. Most people—including large and small groups of people, like businesses—are really bad at keeping their firmware up to date. That goes double for things that exited for a long time without firmware, like appliances. It goes triple for things that people may not realize are even connected to the Internet. A lot of people just don't realize things like toasters, ovens, and fridges are online or that they need to be updated, especially when those things are working fine. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, a strong…