Efficient and Quantum-Safe Internet Key Exchange Protocols for Satellite Communications

This paper studies cryptographic key exchange in satellite communications, which requires specific solutions because the satellite context presents unique challenges, particularly concerning onboard resource constraints and long transmission latency. We address these challenges by considering the...

STARDIS: Strategic Scheduling and Deceptive Signaling for Satellite Intrusion Detection System Deployment

Satellite communication networks operate under stringent computational constraints and are susceptible to sophisticated cyberattacks. This paper introduces a novel defense framework that decouples security optimization into ground-based analysis and onboard real-time execution. In the long-term...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypted...

Secure Satellite Communications Via Multiple Aerial RISs: Joint Optimization of Reflection, Association, and Deployment

Satellite communication is envisioned as a key enabler of future 6G networks, yet its wide coverage with high link attenuation poses significant challenges for physical layer security. In this paper, we investigate secure multi-beam, multi-group satellite communications assisted by aerial...

US Supreme Court Hands Cyberstalkers a First Amendment Victory

Plus: Hackers knock out Russian military satellite communications, a spyware maker gets breached, and the SEC targets a victim company's CISO...

Satellite communications equipment security

Introduction Satcoms are the game changer in maritime cyber security. In the past, satellite connectivity was so expensive as to be prohibitive for all but the most essential communication. Crew personal email and social media access was a pipe dream. However, now that ship operators have access ...

Hacking, tracking, stealing and sinking ships

At Infosecurity Europe this year, we demonstrated multiple methods to interrupt the shipping industry, several of which haven’t been demonstrated in public before, to our knowledge. Some of these issues were simply through poor security hygiene on board, but others were linked to the protocols us...

Airplanes Can Be Hacked Through Wireless In-flight Entertainment System

Almost a year ago, at the ‘Hack In The Box’ security summit in Amsterdam, a security researcher at N.Runs and a commercial airline pilot, Hugo Teso presented a demonstration that it's possible to take control of aircraft flight systems and communications using an Android smartphone and some...

The Emerging Threat to Satellite Communications

DUBAI–When new technologies or platforms emerge, they tend to follow a familiar trajectory in terms of security. The evolution typically goes through something like the following stages: Hey, look what we built; huh, no, we didn’t think about that problem; we’re very serious about security; ok, n...