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News Release from: Innominate Security Technologies | Subject: Tom Tom problems
Edited by the Processingtalk Editorial
Team on 01 February 2007
Are you shipping viruses in your
products?
Tom Tom, manufacturers of GPS tracking devices, has had the embarrassment of admitting to shipping its GO 910 device with a virus: businesses need to take such dangers and threats seriously
Tom Tom, manufacturers of GPS tracking devices, has had the embarrassment of admitting to shipping its GO 910 device with a virus News that malware has infected products during the manufacturing process are becoming more common and it was only in October 2006 that Apple had to make a similarly embarrassing admission after shipping iPods infected with the RayMonE virus
This article was originally published on Processingtalk on 11 Nov 2005 at 8.00am (UK)
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This trend indicates that businesses are still not taking the threat to their manufacturing lines seriously, asserts industrial security specialist Innominate.
"They need to develop a keen awareness of the threat from virus attacks to their industrial Ethernet networks," confirmed Joachim Fietz, CEO: "Tom Tom has been strenuous in asserting that the virus does not affect the performance of the GPS and that there are no detrimental affects, but it's a bit like telling a diner that there was a fly in their soup but it has been removed.
Digestion of the alien body is unlikely to cause harm, but it does make the product seem less palatable afterwards! Quite simply, it is time that companies realised that manufacturing plants are as vulnerable to viruses as the office environment and take suitable steps to secure it".
Innominate promotes devolved security solutions, which includes device-attached security that secure machinery against interference - deliberate or accidental, as well its mGuard firewall solutions and its remote maintenance service for manufacturers.
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