The latest piece of tech that can unexpectedly be hacked- a ‘nutrunner’ wrench, which had over 20 vulnerabilities that’ll be patched out in January-
I really feel like we’re nudging towards the Cyberpunk: 2077-style future where netrunner hackers will basically become wizards, able to explode just about anything with a few lines of rogue code. Okay—the reality may be far more boring, but considering they put DRM in trains a while back I’m crossing my fingers for cyber sorcerers in the next few decades.
The latest in this list of surprisingly hackable tech? The Bosch Rexroth NXA015S-36V-B—also called a nutrunner, which is a type of torque wrench that came into use nearly 100 years ago and just so happens to share a lot of letters with ‘netrunner’. We live in a world of beautiful coincidences.
As detailed in a report by the security firm Nozomi. A squad of security experts found a whopping 25 different vulnerab…
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