Stuff like this doesn't happen less its an inside job, they can deny it all they want but chances that a rogue outside hacker that gets this kinda axx are insanely remote. They would need source access and time to modify the source and make sure it work's.
Infected Chinese inventory scanners ships off logistics intel
A Chinese manufacturer has been accused of implanting malware that steals supply chain intelligence in its hand-held scanner firmware. Security firm TrapX says infected scanners have been sold to eight unnamed firms including a large robotics company. Variants of the malware broke into enterprise resource planning platforms …
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Friday 11th July 2014 09:08 GMT JMiles
Language?
"Infected scanners once connected to one firm's wireless network attacked its corporate network via the SMB protocol, morphing to infect using the RADMIN protocol more than nine servers after it was initially blocked by a firewall."
The worst sentence construction award goes to this 'journalist'. I know The Reg are a bit laid back when it comes to their (ab)use of the Engish language but a school kid would get sent to the head for this effort here.
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Friday 11th July 2014 12:23 GMT razorfishsl
A lot of kit from China suppliers is deliberately infected.
Tablets, phones, flash sticks and even the latest set top boxes, sometimes it is the supplier other times it is engineers working in the company who have been paid by 'outside' interests.
You would be quite shocked at what is available as infected kit, so much so that there was a recent 'expose' by a HK TV company on Chinese electronics and the purveyors of this product.
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Sunday 13th July 2014 22:40 GMT Aslan
Re: scanners and website-hosted software
A useful barcode scanner these days is a PDA with a pistol grip mount, a touch screen and wifi. It ties into the inventory system, and can access stock levels and locations, deliver messages, clock workers in and out, navigate the warehouse. They're pretty amazing tools. If you can't trust your suppliers who can you trust?
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