The Chai Open qPCR machine (https://www.chaibio.com/openqpcr/) is a great little democratizing molecular biology instrument. Unfortunately, the manufacturers shipped it with SSH and a default password with sudo access enabled! This means that anyone who can find the IP address of your qPCR machine can take it over and do whatever they want with it, including using it as a way to attack the rest of your network. Fortunately, this problem is pretty easy to fix.
This assumes you have access to a unix-like terminal (like the MacOS terminal). In short, you'll want to login to the machine, change the default password, and disable root login. For extra safety, I recommend contacting the manufacturer for fresh firmware image and flashing your firmware. That should clear out anything that's potentially been compromised. You'll need the IP address of your qPCR machine too, here we're calling it 10.0.0.100. The default username is debian and th