Spam, phishing and malware are certainly inconvenient, but they are nothing compared to the evil of attacking one’s caffeine source.  According to the story on Slashdot, some nefarious poltroon has figured out how to compromise a particular brand of coffee makers via it’s internet connection, assumedly java enabled, and from there onto the PC that is connected to.  Don’t worry about why a coffee maker should have an IP address, worry about the possibility of over-caffeinated morning people and IT workers drowsing and drowning in their oversized, understrength morning dose.

“Craig Wright discovered that the Jura F90 Coffee maker, with its honest-to-God Jura Internet Connection Kit, can be taken over by a remote attacker, who can cause the coffee to be weaker or stronger; change the amount of water per cup; or cause the machine to require service (call this one a DDoC). ‘Best yet, the software allows a remote attacker to gain access to the Windows XP system it is running on at the level of the user.’ An Internet-enabled, remote-controlled coffee-machine and XP backdoor – what more could a hacker ask for?”

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