The reports of the chief research officer of security firm Rapid7, HD Moore, in a blog post and refers to insider information from the industry. Around 5800 the so-called Automatic Tank Gauges (ATG) is controllable via the Internet without any detours and password protection and thus manipulates - 5300 of them in the US alone, at least three percent of all gas stations in the country.
Using ATG manufactured by Veeder-Root will be controlled and monitored the fuel tank almost all American stations and many other stations around the world. About a monitoring console operator levels, refueling operations, threatening leaks or environmental influences from the outside can control. Connected this ATG are serial interfaces, fax, modem or even TCP/IP. To access via the Internet to the monitoring console, use many station operators TCP/IP, mostly on TCP port 10001 - because password protection is not set by default, the systems often are therefore open and freely accessible on the Internet.
