— Have you contacted the captain?

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Tales of Safety: Ship Hijacking
Vladimir Bezmaly | 06/26/2018
The morning at the port seemed ordinary. The sun was slowly rising from the sea, everything promised good weather. The cargo port lived its own life. Suddenly, an alarm sounded in the control room.

- Boss! We have a problem.

- What's happened?

— The ship "Saint Nicholas" suddenly turned and is moving to square 348, to the Strait of Storms. There are unfavorable conditions for shipping and there may be pirates. It is unclear why, because a little to the north there is a safe shipping strait.


- Yes, but he says the ship is on autopilot and moving in the right direction.

- Demand that he drift and send a search party to the ship. I don't understand what's going on yet. Is the ship equipped with a satellite navigation system? Electronic charts?

— Yes. After a major overhaul, Saint Nicholas uses electronic maps and information systems.

— Then be sure to include computer crime specialists in the group.

Four hours passed.

- Chief, you were right! The ship's information malta whatsapp data was hacked. It was based on the outdated Windows NT operating system, which had long been unsupported by the developers. The system was compromised, as a result of which cybercriminals were able to change the coordinates received by GPS receivers, and since the ship regularly used an autopilot, neither the captain nor the crew members realized that the ship was going a different route.

— Is this all trouble?

— If only. We found that the steering, engines and ballast pumps exchange messages, sending them in plain text format without authentication. And that's not all. Vulnerable ship trackers can be found using a specialized search engine.

- Yes-s-s, you made me happy... I didn't think that computer hackers would break into ships. But now this evil has reached us. Bring the ship to the port and put it against the wall. We will check all its systems.