July 23, 2009 at Industrial espionage
It took one company to somehow steal the drawings of parts that competitors were turning on their CNC machines. And not just drawings, but CNC programs for which all this is processed. But to do this was not easy - drawings in the form of files went to the machines through a local network directly from the office of the company. In the machine itself, they settled in the file folders from where they were already taken; the operators sucked into the processing program. By the way, Win2000 stood on all machines, in general I have never seen modern machines on systems other than Windows or DOS.
The only one with whom it was possible to agree on the theft of cutting plans was the machine operator, but here's the west - the machine racks are tightly closed and sealed. Only a monitor, mouse, and keyboard stick out. Well, the PLC's face, but you really have nothing to eat from it. To computers, to stick a floppy disk or a USB flash drive there. How to be
The solution turned out to be very simple - it turned out that the mouse was USB there. Therefore, a similar mouse was quickly found, prepared. In the womb of the mouse we stuck the scraps of the USB hub into which we inserted the USB flash drive and, in fact, the mouse. And the mouse cord was shoved into the hub entrance. After the mouse was kicked in the workshop to give it factory sootiness and foulness. Further, the combination was a protest - the bribed operator pulled out his mouse through a hole in the rack and went to complain to the local IT worker about the fact that he accidentally pulled the mouse and it fell out. An unsuspecting admin, part-time also a security guard, opened the counter with his own key, stuck a mouse in there, closed it and left about his business. Then it’s trivial - a flash drive suddenly appeared in the system, where all files were merged within a month. After the mouse was disassembled, the flash drive went to the competitors.
Then there were a lot of cries, showdowns and searches of the extreme. They didn’t find a leak, but a charged mouse still stands there ...
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published with the kind permission of the author - DI HALT (dihalt.ru)
The only one with whom it was possible to agree on the theft of cutting plans was the machine operator, but here's the west - the machine racks are tightly closed and sealed. Only a monitor, mouse, and keyboard stick out. Well, the PLC's face, but you really have nothing to eat from it. To computers, to stick a floppy disk or a USB flash drive there. How to be
The solution turned out to be very simple - it turned out that the mouse was USB there. Therefore, a similar mouse was quickly found, prepared. In the womb of the mouse we stuck the scraps of the USB hub into which we inserted the USB flash drive and, in fact, the mouse. And the mouse cord was shoved into the hub entrance. After the mouse was kicked in the workshop to give it factory sootiness and foulness. Further, the combination was a protest - the bribed operator pulled out his mouse through a hole in the rack and went to complain to the local IT worker about the fact that he accidentally pulled the mouse and it fell out. An unsuspecting admin, part-time also a security guard, opened the counter with his own key, stuck a mouse in there, closed it and left about his business. Then it’s trivial - a flash drive suddenly appeared in the system, where all files were merged within a month. After the mouse was disassembled, the flash drive went to the competitors.
Then there were a lot of cries, showdowns and searches of the extreme. They didn’t find a leak, but a charged mouse still stands there ...
*****
published with the kind permission of the author - DI HALT (dihalt.ru)