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 This $1,000 device lets hackers hijack satellite communications

A satellite tracking technology can be easily hacked with the help of
a $1,000 device made of off the shelf components, according to a
security researcher who found a flaw in the technology.

Taking advantage of this flaw, criminal hackers could track and hijack
valuable cargo, such as military supplies or cash and gold stored in
an armored car, according to Colby Moore, a researcher at security
firm Synack, who plans to show off his findings at the upcoming Black
Hat security conference.

Moore claims that the communications between trackers sold by
GlobalStar and its constellation of satellites is insecure, allowing
pretty much anyone to intercept it and even send its own spoofed
signal to the satellites. This flaw, according to Moore, shows that
satellite companies like GlobalStar aren’t taking basic steps to make
their technologies secure.

“We’re only at the tip of the iceberg for the implications around
this,” Moore told Motherboard in a phone interview. “It’s really
critical that these companies start taking security seriously.”

“It’s really critical that these companies start taking security seriously.”

GlobalStar markets its satellite tracking devices to corporations and
government agencies that want to track their valuable assets. They can
also be used to monitor industrial critical infrastructure such as
pipelines, or to track hikers and other adventurers who use
GlobalStar’s consumer tracker called “Spot.”

All these devices, according to Moore, depend on the same, flawed
technology, known as the Simplex data network, which is used to send
data between the transmitters and the satellites.

More said he was able to reverse engineer the protocol underlying the
network and find that all these devices use the same code to transmit
data, making it “very easy’ to intercept data flowing from the devices
to the satellites.

Read the full story at:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/this-1000-device-lets-hackers-hijack-satellite-communications

Our thanks to Stephen, G7VFY for spotting this item