Satellite communication systems rife with security flaws

Maritime Topics Marine Technology
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Interesting story:

http://news.idg.no/cw/art.cfm?id=9AA68E91-BE4C-85A5-78889BBBA9602E8F

Looks like Cobham is going to be busy fixing this.

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For those who are interested in the details, security consultant Ruben Santamarta wrote a whitepaper about these vulnerabilities:

The whitepaper addressed vulnerabilities in Harris, Hughes, Cobham, Thuraya, JRC, and Iridium equipment. Apparently Santamarta also demonstrated the Sailor 6000 vulnerability at Black Hat in Las Vegas:

CMU CERT has an advisory published for the Cobham Sailor 6000 series satellite terminal:

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/269991