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 * BEST OF TODAY’S TECH STORIES – 20/05/2024
   
   ARTechnologies ‘Best of Today’ highlights tech news that – may not have made
   the Top 10 list of your favourite tech website but – is definitely worth
   reading.  Welcome to Best of Today’s Tech Stories – 20/05/2024.
   
   By far my favourite story of today was reported by Tech Crunch and was that
   of two University of California students, Alexander Sherbrooke and Iakov
   Taranenko. The two students managed to find a vulnerability in the API of
   internet-connected washing machines owned by CSC ServiceWorks.
   
   The washing machines would usually be controlled by the CSC GO app but the
   two students managed to work around the security features of the app by
   sending commands directly to the CSC server. It is assumed that this would
   have involved sifting through and deciphering thousands of network
   transactions (never fun) to learn how to communicate with and manipulate the
   CSC server.
   
   The washing machines are used across Europe, Canada and the US at
   universities, hotels and laundromats.  The vulnerability allowed the students
   not only to use the machines for free but also to falsely credit their CSC GO
   accounts.
   
   Reading this story I was reminded of the Phreaking hack made famous by
   characters Razor and Blade (pictured below) in United Artists’ 1995 cult
   classic HACKERS which allowed certain tech savvy individuals to make free
   long distant phone calls. Like that hack, this could make the day-to-day life
   of anyone willing to exploit the vulnerability a little more affordable at
   the expense of a large corporation.
   
   Pictured: Razor (Darren Lee) and Blade (Peter Kim) from United Artists’ 1995
   Cult Classic HACKERS
   
   The two honest students reported the bug to CSC in January but – with the
   exception of clearing the millions of dollars of credit that the students had
   added to their accounts – no action has been taken to fix the vulnerability.
   
   Bravo to Sherbrooke and Taranenko for finding and reporting the
   vulnerability. Hack the Planet!

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