Posted on 06/30/2017 3:56:39 PM PDT by Oatka
When reporters were recently being given tours of the Royal Navy’s new “supercarrier,” HMS Queen Elizabeth, some were surprized to see a distinctive logo on several computer screens on the bridge and in control rooms. The logo was for Windows XP, the Microsoft computer operating system introduced in 2001. The ship itself was under construction for over eight years and the many of the procurement lead times were even longer. The reporters were told that the software was ordered in 2004, when XP was the latest and greatest version of the operating system.
[snip] While not as scary as nukes or a hacked carrier, as merchant ships become more integrated into global networks, there is an increasing risk of cyber-attacks on ships at sea. In 2013, a group of researchers from the University of Texas demonstrated how a ship might be taken over remotely when they “spoofed” the GPS navigation system on the $80 million yacht, White Rose of the Drachs. The yacht captain had no idea that the boat’s GPS system was sending false information to the autopilot.
(Excerpt) Read more at gcaptain.com ...
A somewhat related thread on hacking shipping: Global Shipping Feels Fallout from Maersk Cyber Attack
XP is lass likely to be talkin’ to the Rooskies than Win X.
If I had my way, I’d still be running XP.
Wasn’t there a James Bond movie similar to this?
Will these IT geniuses who write this crap please confirm that the XP systems are connected to the public internet? No, I didn’t think they could. Fake news.
XP enterprise and embedded support continues until 2019.
I do have my way and I do still run XP. Typing in XP right now.
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