In August of this year, we presented at Blackhat our paper titled The GasPot Experiment: Unexamined Perils in Using Gas-Tank-Monitoring Systems. GasPot was a honeypot designed to mimic the behavior of the Guardian AST gas-tank-monitoring system. It was designed to look like no other existing honeypot, with each instance being unique to make fingerprinting by attackers impossible. These were deployed within networks located in various countries, to give us a complete picture of the attacks facing gas tank monitoring systems.
Read MorePhysically tampering with gasoline tanks is dangerous enough, given how volatile gas can be. Altering a fuel gauge can cause a tank to overflow, and a simple spark can set everything ablaze. But imagine how riskier it is if a hacker can do all this remotely, especially now that a number of fuel companies worldwide…
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