Collaborate Disseminate
It would seem that for as long as there have been ships on the ocean, there’s been smuggling. The International Maritime Organisation requires ships to have AIS, the automatic identification …read more Continue reading Finding Dark Ships via Satellite
It would seem that for as long as there have been ships on the ocean, there’s been smuggling. The International Maritime Organisation requires ships to have AIS, the automatic identification …read more Continue reading Finding Dark Ships via Satellite
Software-defined radio came on the hacker scene in a big way less than a decade ago thanks to the discovery that a small USB-based TV tuner dongle could be used for receiving all kinds of radio transmissions. Two popular projects from that era are tracking nearby airplanes and boats in …read more
Continue reading Tracking Boats and Ships in Real Time at the Same Time
I’m writing from a cozy farmhouse just outside of Oxford, UK where we are slowly emerging from a particularly intense Atlantic storm. Some areas have widespread flooding, while fallen tree branches and damaged roofs are countrywide. Our neighbours in the Irish Republic are first in the path of these storms, …read more
Continue reading Just How Can You Lose Something The Size Of A Cargo Ship?
As the Raspberry Pi in its various forms continues to flow into the wild by the thousands, it’s interesting to see its user base expand outside beyond the hacker communities. One group of people who’ve also started taking a liking to it is sailing enthusiasts. [James Conger] is one such …read more
Continue reading Traffic Updates On The Seven Seas: Open Source Chart Plotter Using A Raspberry Pi
Companies that view cybersecurity as a competitive advantage and fail to exchange threat data make the broader private sector more vulnerable to hacking, a Department of Homeland Security official has warned. “Cybersecurity, infrastructure security, is not a competitive advantage,” Bradford Willke, a top official in DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said Tuesday. If a good product or company fails because of a breach that could have been thwarted by sharing threat information, “there’s something that we’ve all lost,” Willke said at the Public Sector Innovation Summit. By citing reported communication failures elsewhere, DHS officials hope to spur U.S. companies to work more closely with each other to harden their networks against advanced threats. In doing so, the department is trying to overcome historical reluctance in the private sector — fueled by concerns over revealing sensitive corporate information — to share threat data. Willke cited a December 2015 blackout in Ukraine caused by suspected Russian government hackers as a […]
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For years, U.S. government officials have been trying to provide firms with actionable threat data in time for corporate officials to block hackers from compromising their networks. The 2015 Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) gave firms legal cover to provide threat data to the government; the Department of Homeland Security rolled out an automated threat-sharing program in 2016; and Republican and Democratic administrations have preached the information-sharing gospel at conferences across the country. But today, amid consistent nation-state cyberthreats to U.S. companies, there is a growing consensus in Congress and in the private sector that these federal efforts are falling way short of expectations and needs. Two years after DHS established its Automated Indicator Sharing (AIS) program, just six non-federal organizations are using it to share threat indicators with the government, a DHS official told CyberScoop. “That’s unacceptable and it surely doesn’t reach the threshold I hoped it was going […]
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Continue reading Private sector isn’t sharing data with DHS’s threat portal
Pen Test Partners demonstrates how to send vessels off-course or even onto a path to collision — fairly easily. Continue reading Shipping Industry Cybersecurity: A Shipwreck Waiting to Happen
A new report by the nonprofit Oceana spotlights weird cases of fishing vessels switching off their public trackers. Continue reading Why Do Fishing Vessels ‘Go Dark’ In Certain Regions of the Ocean?
SpaceX just concluded 2017 by launching 10 Iridium NEXT satellites. A footnote on the launch was the “hosted payload” on board each of the satellites: a small box of equipment from Aireon. They will track every aircraft around the world in real-time, something that has been technically possible but nobody claimed they could do it economically until now.
Challenge one: avoid adding cost to aircraft. Instead of using expensive satcom or adding dedicated gear, Aireon listen to ADS-B equipment already installed as part of international air traffic control modernization. But since ADS-B was designed for aircraft-to-aircraft and aircraft-to-ground, Aireon had …read more
Continue reading Aireon Hitchhikes on Iridium to Track Airplanes