Attackers Can Easily Disable 5,300 Gas Stations in the US

The industry’s most famous white hat hacker, HD Moore, reports that automated tank gauges at 5,300 gas stations, can be connected to on port 10,001 without authentication and vulnerable to remote attacks or shut down. There is also publicly hosted documentation that details how to fully work the automated tank gauges on the Internet.

HD Moore is best known for metasploit.

The company that created the automated tank gauges, Veeder-Root, says it is working with its customers better enable available security features.

Read HD Moore’s blog post