On-Board 'Mystery Boxes' Threaten Global Shipping Vessels

Commercial shipping environments are rife with vulnerabilities, according to researchers – up to and including unpatched “mystery boxes” that no one knows anything about. “In every single nautical pen test to date we have unearthed a system or device, that of the few crew that were aware, no one...

Unmasking mystery boxes on ship’s bridges

We pen test a variety of vessel and platform types across different fleets and operators. In every single test to date we have unearthed a system or device, that of the few crew that were aware, no-one could tell us what it is was for. In other scenarios an undocumented system or device would be...

[SECURITY] Fedora 28 Update: gpsd-3.17-6.fc28

gpsd is a service daemon that mediates access to a GPS sensor connected to the host computer by serial or USB interface, making its data on the location/course/velocity of the sensor available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications such as...

[SECURITY] Fedora 29 Update: gpsd-3.17-6.fc29

gpsd is a service daemon that mediates access to a GPS sensor connected to the host computer by serial or USB interface, making its data on the location/course/velocity of the sensor available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications such as...

Sinking a ship and hiding the evidence

Our earlier work on Voyage Data Recorder manipulation got us thinking about how a malicious individual or organisation might bring about the demise of a ship and hide the evidence. There are plenty of ways to get malware on to a ship. Whether it’s via satcoms, phishing, USB, crew Wi-Fi, dodgy DVD...

Hacking Navtex maritime warning messages

When data roaming was still expensive across Europe and cellular data service was patchy, I used Navtex extensively whilst sailing in the Mediterranean. Every four hours, one could get a useful marine weather forecast. Was there a fun days sailing ahead, or was a dash for port and gin & tonic in ...

Fedora Update for gpsd FEDORA-2013-7309

Check for the Version of gpsd OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Fedora Update for gpsd FEDORA-2013-7309 Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2013 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of...

[SECURITY] Fedora 18 Update: gpsd-3.9-1.fc18

gpsd is a service daemon that mediates access to a GPS sensor connected to the host computer by serial or USB interface, making its data on the location/course/velocity of the sensor available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications such as...

[SECURITY] Fedora 17 Update: gpsd-3.9-1.fc17

gpsd is a service daemon that mediates access to a GPS sensor connected to the host computer by serial or USB interface, making its data on the location/course/velocity of the sensor available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications such as...

[SECURITY] Fedora 19 Update: gpsd-3.9-1.fc19

gpsd is a service daemon that mediates access to a GPS sensor connected to the host computer by serial or USB interface, making its data on the location/course/velocity of the sensor available to be queried on TCP port 2947 of the host computer. With gpsd, multiple GPS client applications such as...