Remotely hacking ships shouldn’t be this easy, and yet …

The Internet of Things has shown us time and time again that nothing connected to the internet is safe from hackers, and yet we’ve mostly written off security-camera fueled botnets as someone else’s problem. 

But what if the thing in question happens to be a boat loaded with weapons?

A group of cybersecurity researchers is having a field day online with the discovery that the configuration of certain ships’ satellite antenna systems leaves them wide open to attack — and the possible consequences are startling. Read more…

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