Voyage Data Recorder (VDR)

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Pirate Hackers Can Easily Spy on Ships Through Insecure 'Black Boxes'

Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai | Motherboard | December 9, 2015

Pirate hackers could track and spy on ships and cargo vessels by remotely hacking into their “black boxes,” according to a security researcher. Ruben Santamarta, a security researcher at the well-known firm IOActive, found that a particular model of Voyage Data Recorder (VDR), the popular Furuno VR-3000, a device that’s essentially the equivalent of an aircraft’s black box, has several bugs that make it very easy for the crew to tamper with it or for a hacker to hack it remotely...

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