Pen testing cruise ships

New build ships contracted for build from 1st July 2024 must comply with IACS UR E26 & 27. What does this mean for assessing the cyber security of a cruise ship? What’s the risk profile? Cruise ships have a unique risk profile. This is due to the huge number of guests on board, highly complex...

Friday Squid Blogging: Searching for the Colossal Squid

A cruise ship is searching for the colossal squid. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Hacking floating hotels. Cruise ship compromise on the high seas

Modern cruise ships have all the amenities of a large resort hotel. Prior to entering the infosec space, I spent 5 years working in hotels. My experience of the security of both hotels and shipping indicates that the mix is not a good one for security. What’s the difference between a hotel and a...

Cruise Ship Cargo Simulator 3D - Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions, WebView SSL handling enabled vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Cruise Ship Cargo Simulator 3D published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Cruise Ship 3D Simulator - Customized SSL, WebView SSL handling enabled, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Cruise Ship 3D Simulator published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Can you escape 3D: Cruise Ship - Dynamic Code Loading, External URLs, Native code usage vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Can you escape 3D: Cruise Ship published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...