[email protected]English • 1 year ago

Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware

arstechnica.com

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Hackers can infect network-connected wrenches to install ransomware

arstechnica.com

[email protected]English • 1 year ago

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Researchers identify 23 vulnerabilities, some of which can exploited with no authentication.

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13•1 year ago
Why TF are there network-connected wrenches? It’s a god damn wrench.
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  9•1 year ago
  I would agree, but it does logging for safety critical bolts and that probably wouldn’t be the worst thing to have…
  
  https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/no-data-captured-alaska-airlines-737-cockpit-voice-recorder-ntsb-chair-2024-01-08/
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  4•1 year ago
  Manufacturing or anything that requires traceability?
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3•1 year ago
It’s not just a wrench, it’s a “hand-held nutrunner”

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