Collaborate Disseminate
We all like to keep our network gear running during a power outage — trouble is, your standard consumer-grade uninterruptible power supply (UPS) tends to be overkill for routers and …read more Continue reading Open Source DC UPS Keeps the Low-Voltage Gear Going
When you have a whole stack of devices and appliances that all have an AC to DC adapter and which you’d like to put on an uninterruptable power supply (UPS), …read more Continue reading Second Life UPS Mark II: A UPS For Low-Voltage DC Applications
If you’ve got a so-called uninterruptible power supply (UPS) on your system, you’re probably painfully aware that the “uninterruptible” part has some pretty serious limits. Most consumer units are designed …read more Continue reading Mods Turn Junk UPS into a Long-Endurance Beast
A researcher has found 7 vulnerabilities in Socomec UPS products that can be exploited to hijack and disrupt devices.
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It’s desirable to have your Internet connection up at all times, particularly as it can take some time to get back online if you have a power interruption or similar. …read more Continue reading Stay Online When The Power Goes Out With This Fiber Modem UPS Hack
UPS delivers some smishing advice (but have they kept something under wraps?), we ask ChatGPT to take a long hard look at itself, and we debate what the penalty should be for taking national secrets home with you.
All this and much much more is disc… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #328: UPS smishing, ChatGPT 101, and storing secret files
The United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters have been harvesting phone numbers and other information from its online shipment tracking tool in Canada to send highly targeted SMS phishing (a.k.a. “smishing”) messages that spoofed UPS and other top brands. The missives addressed recipients by name, included details about recent orders, and warned that those orders wouldn’t be shipped unless the customer paid an added delivery fee. Continue reading SMS Phishers Harvested Phone Numbers, Shipment Data from UPS Tracking Tool
Nowadays, some people in Europe worry about energy prices climbing, and even if all the related problems disappear overnight, we’ll no doubt be seeing some amounts of price increase. As …read more Continue reading Low-Voltage DC Network Build Incited By Solar Panels
Depending on what part of the country you’re in, coping… Continue reading Backup Power Supplies and Strategies to Recover from Power Outages
Flicking a circuit breaker to power cycle hundreds of desktop computers inside interactive museum exhibits is hardly ideal. Computers tend to get cranky when improperly shutdown, and there’s an non-zero …read more Continue reading Power Cycling Museum Computers On The Cheap