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Great Emergency Lights from Not-So-Great UPS

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We know your shame. Like you, we wanted to save some scratch and bought the bottom-of-the-range UPS, only to discover that it is no use to man or beast as it lacks the power to perform any reasonable task. It’s now sitting in a corner, to gather dust as its batteries deteriorate.

Not so fast with the UPS abandonment! [rue_mohr] came up with a modification for a small APC UPS that turned it into something a little more useful. Removing the mains inverter from the picture with a few displaced wires and PCB mod, the UPS is now a 12V …read more

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Fake UPS Quantum View UPS Ship Notification, Tracking Number tries to deliver malware

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The next in the never ending series of malware downloaders is an email with the subject of  UPS Ship Notification, Tracking Number 1Z51322Y3483221007 ( random numbers)   pretending to come from UPS Quantum View <pkginfo26@ups.com> (random pkgino numbers) They use email addresses and subjects that will entice, persuade, scare or shock  a … Continue reading → Continue reading Fake UPS Quantum View UPS Ship Notification, Tracking Number tries to deliver malware→

Gas Heater Gets A Battery Backup

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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

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Fake FedEx USPS UPS delivery notifications continue to deliver Kovter and ransomware

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The gangs spreading malware via the “cannot deliver your parcel notifications” or “check where your parcel is”  spoofing FedEx, DHL, UPS, USPS etc. have changed delivery method. The emails are still very similar to the ones we are used to seeing with this sort of subject line. USPS issue #06914074: unable to delivery parcel Parcel #006514814 shipment problem, please review USPS parcel #3150281 delivery problem … Continue reading → Continue reading Fake FedEx USPS UPS delivery notifications continue to deliver Kovter and ransomware→

Fake FedEx USPS UPS delivery notifications continue to deliver Kovter and ransomware

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The gangs spreading malware via the “cannot deliver your parcel notifications” or “check where your parcel is”  spoofing FedEx, DHL, UPS, USPS etc. have changed delivery method. The emails are still very similar to the ones we are used to seeing with this sort of subject line. USPS issue #06914074: unable to delivery parcel Parcel #006514814 shipment problem, please review USPS parcel #3150281 delivery problem … Continue reading → Continue reading Fake FedEx USPS UPS delivery notifications continue to deliver Kovter and ransomware→

Hackaday Prize Entry: LiFePO4wered/Pi+

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For some of you the title might seem familiar, as [Patrick Van Oosterwijck] LiFePO4wered/Pi project is a quite successful Hackaday.io project. Now he’s designing from scratch the plus version to fill in some gaps and solve some of the challenges that affected the initial project. So what exactly is LiFePO4wered/Pi+ and what can it do?

In a nutshell, it’s a smart UPS for the Raspberry Pi. The standard version allows a Model A+ and Pi Zero to run on battery for over 2 hours, and the B+, B2 and B3 to run for at least an hour (it maybe less, …read more

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fake parcel delivery services malspam with word doc attachment delivers ursnif banking Trojan

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A slightly different one today and I am not sure how many recipients will be infected by this. On my server, some are being delivered with the word doc attachment, but about half are just getting the email body with  an HTML attachment which has the same details as the email body and … Continue reading → Continue reading fake parcel delivery services malspam with word doc attachment delivers ursnif banking Trojan→

APT3 Linked to Chinese Ministry of State Security

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Researchers claim that APT3, widely believed to be a China-based threat actor, is directly connected to the Chinese Ministry of State Security (MSS). Continue reading APT3 Linked to Chinese Ministry of State Security→

Powering A Laptop With Supercapacitors

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What do you do when you find a small horde of supercapacitors? The correct answer is a spectrum of dangerous devices ranging from gauss guns to quarter shrinkers. [Rinoa] had a less destructive idea: he’s replaced the battery in a laptop with a bank of supercapacitors.

The supercaps in question are 2.7 Volt, 500 Farad caps arranged in banks six for a total of about 3 watt-hours in each bank. The laptop used for this experiment is an IBM Thinkpad from around 1998. The stock battery in this laptop is sufficiently less advanced than today’s laptop batteries. Instead of using …read more

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This Quick Hack Will Keep You Online During Your Next Power Outage

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The modern human’s worst nightmare: a power outage. Left without cat memes, Netflix, and — of course — Hackaday, there’s little to do except participate in the temporary anarchy that occurs when left without internet access. Lamenting over expensive and bulky uninterruptible power supplies, Youtube user [Gadget Addict] hacked together a UPS power bank that might just stave off the collapse of order in your household.

This simple and functional hack really amounts to snipping the end off of a USB  power cable. The cable is then attached to a screw terminal to barrel connector adapter and plugged it into …read more

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