Re:Ship Tracking Hack Makes Tankers Vanish from View
by ge0rg on Saturday October 19, 2013 @03:24PM
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With the advent of SDR, such attacks are becoming easier to accomplish and also come into the focus of IT (security) researches. There is already an OSS AIS decoder [1], and I suppose it will not be too hard to make an encoder.
Still, we have seen similar attack vectors to GSM (you can DoS a multi-million city with a dozen of manipulated 20$ phones), but no real attacks.
Transmitting on licensed frequencies without the proper permission is an offense in most countries, and I suppose you can be liable for the damage, provided the regulation authorities can triangulate you while you are sending out.
Still, we have seen similar attack vectors to GSM (you can DoS a multi-million city with a dozen of manipulated 20$ phones), but no real attacks.
Transmitting on licensed frequencies without the proper permission is an offense in most countries, and I suppose you can be liable for the damage, provided the regulation authorities can triangulate you while you are sending out.
[1] http://gnuais.sourceforge.net/