LONDON – The 50,000 ships sailing the sea at any one time have joined an ever-expanding list of objects that can be hacked. Cyber security experts recently displayed how easy it was to break into a ship’s navigational equipment. Phys.Org reports. Continue reading original articlezffyzwzbwaeavctbbz
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18 June 2018 — This comes only a few years after researchers showed that they could fool the GPS of a super-yacht maritime vessel into altering course. Once upon a time objects such as cars, toasters, and tugboats only did what they were originally designed to do. Today the problem is that they all also talk to the Internet, which makes them vulnerable to cyber attack.
Stories about maritime cyber security are only going to proliferate. The maritime industry has been slow to realize that ships, just like everything else, are now part of cyberspace. The International Maritime Organization (IMO), the UN body charged with regulating maritime space, has been late and somewhat slow in considering appropriate regulation when it comes to cyber security.
In 2014, the IMO consulted their membership on what maritime cyber security…
