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back to article It's nearly 2019, and your network can get pwned through an oscilloscope

Administrators overseeing lab environments would be well advised to double-check their network setups following the disclosure of serious flaws in a line of oscilloscopes. On Friday, SEC Consult said it had uncovered a set of high-impact vulnerabilities in electronic testing equipment made by Siglent Technologies. In …

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  1. Christian Berger

    It's actually not that relevant

    Those LAN ports are barely ever used at all, and if they are used they are used with a second network card. After all the LAN port is just a cheaper way of running GPIB to a PC.

    And seriously, if a single device on your network can own the whole network, you have seriously messed up.

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  2. 0laf
    Holmes

    So the attacker already has physical access to your network. You're in a bad place anyway.

    Hacking the oscilloscope probably isn't next on their agenda with that access.

    So a nice unsual vulnerability but probably not very important. If you're running a high assurance network I would hope you'd be examining every bit of network aware kit coming in and making appropriate descisions regarding their use.

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