Re: Vessel-tracking system vulnerable to denial-of-service, other attacks, researchers say

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Forwarded from: security curmudgeon <jericho (at) attrition.org>

On Fri, 30 May 2014, InfoSec News wrote:

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http://news.techworld.com/security/3522313/vessel-tracking-system-vulnerable-to-denial-of-service-other-attacks-researchers-say/
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: By Lucian Constantin
: Techworld.com
: 29 May 2014
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: Inexpensive equipment can be used to disrupt vessel-tracking systems and
: important communications between ships and port authorities, according
: to two security researchers.
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: During the Hack in the Box conference in Amsterdam Thursday, Marco
: Balduzzi, a senior research scientist at Trend Micro, and independent
: security researcher Alessandro Pasta described three new attacks against
: the Automatic Identification System (AIS), which is used by over 400,000
: ships worldwide.

Talk about milking a vulnerability...

These two disclosed the AIS vulnerabilities October 10, 2013. They are
still getting mileage out of it...

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