Collaborate Disseminate
There’s a wee data breach with unhealthy implications in Scotland, privacy has gone off the rails in the UK, and a cheater blames Apple for his expensive divorce.
All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the “Smashing Security” p… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #377: An unhealthy data dump, railway surveillance, and a cheater sues Apple
Poland’s railways have recently come under a form of electronic attack, as reported by Wired. The attack has widely been called a “cyber-attack” in the mainstream media, but the incident was …read more Continue reading Polish Railways Fall Victim To Cheap Radio Attack
As most developed countries around the world continue to modernize their transportation infrastructure with passenger rail, countries in North America have been abandoning railroads for over a century now, assuming …read more Continue reading Riding the Rails by Ebike
On the technology spectrum, railroads would certainly seem to skew toward the brutally simplistic side of things. A couple of strips of steel, some wooden ties and gravel ballast to …read more Continue reading Feeling the Heat: Railway Defect Detection
Southern California is known for its nearly perfect year-round climate, excellent surf, and extremely high cost of living, but once you get away from the coast things are radically different. …read more Continue reading Cart Cruises Abandoned California Rail
Cog railways are a somewhat unusual way of train locomotion, typically only installed when a train needs to climb steep terrain. Any grade above about 10% needs the extra traction …read more Continue reading All Aboard the Garbage Express
When you’ve gone to the trouble of building your own backyard railway, chances are pretty good that at some point, you’re going to want to add a locomotive of some …read more Continue reading Powering a Backyard Railway With Compressed Air
[Joel] of Joel Creates loves trains and Minecraft. So what better way to combine them than to make a real-life electric mine cart and ride it around? At first glance, …read more Continue reading This Little Minecraft Mine Cart of Mine
Reports indicate that Merseyrail, the railway network serving Liverpool and the surrounding area, has been hit by the Lockbit ransomware. Continue reading Was the email account of Merseyrail’s MD hacked to spread word of ransomware attack?
One of the biggest challenges facing the aspiring blacksmith is procuring the tools of the trade. And that means tackling the unenviable task of finding a decent anvil. Sure, one can buy an ASO — anvil-shaped object — at Harbor Freight, but a real anvil is much harder to come …read more
Continue reading Railroad Rail Transformed into Blacksmith’s Anvil with the Simplest of Tools