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Insecure satellite Internet is threatening ship and plane safety
More than a decade has passed since researchers demonstrated serious privacy and and security holes in satellite-based Internet services. The weaknesses allowed attackers to snoop on and sometimes tamper with data received by millions of users thousands of miles away. You might expect that in 2020—as satellite Internet has grown more popular—providers would have fixed those shortcomings, but you’d be wrong. (arstechnica.com) और अधिक...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Well... It is a little bit alarming that the price of access to millions of dollars worth of mischief is only $300 dollars and ten years or so of education in some of the more arcane areas of communications science. While it is true that there is no adequate defense against a dedicated terrorist, it would be ill-advised to allow the population of capable terrorists to become too large. Just be aware this particular domain (GPS) has costs embedded in protocol changes others usually do not. I find it comforting to know people are looking at the issue. You may rest assured someone is working on the issue as well. But as always with security issues, it is a foot race. May the good guys win.
And virtual Defcon, this week, has a contest to 'hack-a-sat'. Yes, hack a satellite. A satellite IN ORBIT. An actual real satellite. It wouldn't be the first time that a satellite was hacked either. ROSAT was hacked, and its solar panels were burned out, destroying the satellite.
This could be a case of 'pen testing' (penetration testing, testing the safeguards to block hackers) but it goes farther to show malicious people that hacking a satellite IS possible. Coupled with Russia's massive in-orbit presence, the next 'war' will likely be fought in orbit, and everything that we depend on from satellites will be destroyed for generations to come. Some of the first satellites ever launched are still in orbit, so any debris from a 'satellite battle' being hacking, acts of war, or accidental, will be on orbit for decades after, GENERATIONS after.
This could be a case of 'pen testing' (penetration testing, testing the safeguards to block hackers) but it goes farther to show malicious people that hacking a satellite IS possible. Coupled with Russia's massive in-orbit presence, the next 'war' will likely be fought in orbit, and everything that we depend on from satellites will be destroyed for generations to come. Some of the first satellites ever launched are still in orbit, so any debris from a 'satellite battle' being hacking, acts of war, or accidental, will be on orbit for decades after, GENERATIONS after.
In a word.....'DUH!'. And it will ALWAYS be like this. ANYTHING is 'hackable'!!! Yet one more reason that I will never set foot on a plane!
A defeatist attitude is self-defeating. "ANYTHING is hackable" is like saying, "Being born has a 100% mortality rate." Get your head out of the sand and fix a couple of real-world problems YOU have control over. You will feel better.
If my work can have a secure "corporate" network and an "unsecured" guest/open network, surely the airlines can as well. as others have said, it's not that satellite internet is "unsecured" it's that improperly configured networks are not secure.
1) either have dedicated VPNs installed (one for company coms, avionics, etc) one for guest/pax wi-fi. could probably go to more to keep every type on their dedicated network.
1) either have dedicated VPNs installed (one for company coms, avionics, etc) one for guest/pax wi-fi. could probably go to more to keep every type on their dedicated network.
Anyone remember the cars that had internet, and NO SECURITY from hackers. I was surprised to find out that the bare minimum of security was used in planes with wifi.
Hackers kill a Jeep. This is the first link I came up with. There are black boxes that will unlock almost any car with the push of a button. There are videos out there showing how easy it is, and the 'black boxes' are available on the internet.
https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/
https://www.wired.com/2015/07/hackers-remotely-kill-jeep-highway/