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NPC: Victims of data leak may file suit
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Global satellite are vulnerable to future cyber warfare: report
NEWS.com.au REAL-LIFE Star Wars may not be only for a galaxy far, far away, an explosive new report finds. |
On April 27, 1986, a Florida man with workplace access to a satellite transmission dish – and a financial beef with HBO — pulled off the kind of audacious stunt that were it to happen today would likely land him in prison for a long, long time.
From a 2011 Buzzblog post:
John MacDougall, then 25, was the lonely pamphleteer of lore, only instead of paper and ink he was armed with a 30-foot transmission dish, an electronic keyboard, and a burning objection to HBO’s decision in 1986 to begin scrambling its satellite signal and charging viewers $ 12.95 a month.
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Globalstar satellite transmissions used for tracking truck fleets and wilderness hikers can be hacked to alter messages being sent with possibly dire consequences for pilots, shipping lines, war correspondents and businesses that use the system to keep an eye on their remote assets.
The technique, described at Black Hat 2015, can’t affect control of the Globalstar satellites themselves, just the messages they relay, but that could mean altering the apparent location of assets the system tracks. So a cargo container with a satellite location device in it could be made to seemingly disappear, or an airplane could be made to seem to veer off course, according to a briefing by Colby Moore, a security staffer at Synack.
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