Collaborate Disseminate
Two security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in an automated gas management that allowed them to shut down fuel pumps, hijack credit card payments, and steal card numbers. Continue reading Flaws in Gas Station Software Let Hackers Change Prices, Steal Fuel, Erase Evidence
Two security researchers discovered vulnerabilities in an automated gas management that allowed them to shut down fuel pumps, hijack credit card payments, and steal card numbers. Continue reading Flaws in Gas Station Software Let Hackers Change Prices, Steal Fuel, Erase Evidence
By Waqas
Russian authorities have identified an extensively distributed malware campaign targeting
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker Used Malware To Hike Prices for Gas Station Customers
Continue reading Hacker Used Malware To Hike Prices for Gas Station Customers
The Trump administration unveiled an unprecedented blueprint for expanding oil and gas drilling in fragile waters. Continue reading Trump Wants to Open Nearly All US Offshore Waters to Drilling
Staff at the Bureau of Land Management were instructed to share photos of fossil fuel development on the agency’s Flickr page, FOIA documents reveal. Continue reading Public Lands Agency Ordered Staff to Promote Oil and Gas on Social Media
We humans have put an awful lot of effort into our infrastructure for the last few centuries, and even more effort into burying most of it. And with good reason — not only are above ground cables and pipes unsightly, they’re also vulnerable to damage from exposure to the elements. Some utilities, like natural gas and sanitary sewer lines, are also dangerous, or at least perceived to be so, and so end up buried. Out of sight, out of mind.
But humans love to dig, too, and it seems like no sooner is a paving project completed than some joker …read more
Continue reading Knowing What’s Below: Buried Utility Location
Engineering student [Varun Suresh] designed his SafeRanger rover to inspect oil and gas power plants for abnormal temperatures as well as gas leaks. The rover explores critical areas of the factory, and data is sent to a control center for analysis.
[Varun] built his robot around a Devastator chassis kit from DFRobot, and equipped it with a FLIR Lepton thermal camera and an MQ2 gas sensor, both monitored by a Raspberry Pi. The twin brushless DC motors are controlled by an L293D motor driver IC in conjunction with an Arduino Nano; steering is accomplished with an HC-05 Bluetooth module and …read more
Continue reading Hackaday Prize Entry: SafeRanger, a Roving Power Plant Monitor
As often happens while engaged in a mundane task, my mind wandered while I was mowing my small suburban plot of green this weekend. “Why, in 2017, am I still mowing the lawn?” In a lot of ways we’re living in the future — we walk around with fantastically powerful computers in our pockets, some of us have semi-autonomous cars, and almost anything can be purchased at the touch of a finger and delivered the next day or sooner. We even have robots that can vacuum the floor, so why not a robot lawnmower?
It turns out we do have …read more
With the availability of cheap modules, it has become easy to hack/make stuff at home and home appliances see the most creative hacks of all. In one such hack, [Vadim] takes the DIY route to adding battery backup to his gas heater.
His existing unit operates on two D-type batteries which need to be replaced once they are depleted. [Vadim] wanted to implement a reversible method since he lives in a rented place. He replaced the original cells with battery adaptors and brought out the connections using two wires. He then proceeded to add two cellphone batteries with a TPS54233 …read more
