Posted on 08/21/2017 4:50:22 PM PDT by oxcart
Reports of satellite navigation problems in the Black Sea suggest that Russia may be testing a new system for spoofing GPS .
On 22 June, the US Maritime Administration filed a seemingly bland incident report. The master of a ship off the Russian port of Novorossiysk had discovered his GPS put him in the wrong spot – more than 32 kilometres inland, at Gelendzhik Airport.
After checking the navigation equipment was working properly, the captain contacted other nearby ships. Their AIS traces – signals from the automatic identification system used to track vessels – placed them all at the same airport. At least 20 ships were affected.
While the incident is not yet confirmed, experts think this is the first documented use of GPS misdirection – a spoofing attack that has long been warned of but never been seen in the wild.
Until now, the biggest worry for GPS has been it can be jammed by masking the GPS satellite signal with noise. While this can cause chaos, it is also easy to detect. GPS receivers sound an alarm when they lose the signal due to jamming. Spoofing is more insidious: a false signal from a ground station simply confuses a satellite receiver. “Jamming just causes the receiver to die, spoofing causes the receiver to lie,” says consultant David Last, former president of the UK’s Royal Institute of Navigation.
Todd Humphreys, of the University of Texas at Austin, has been warning of the coming danger of GPS spoofing for many years. In 2013, he showed how a superyacht with state-of-the-art navigation could be lured off-course by GPS spoofing. “The receiver’s behaviour in the Black Sea incident was much like during the controlled attacks my team conducted,” says Humphreys.
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To bad the Military uses encrypted GPS that can only be spoofed if you know the rotating key.
It’s always Russia, Russia, Russia. Putin isn’t so dumb as to run this off his own coast.
I dont believe that a bit. We have multiple redundancy on those billion dollar ships. This is dereliction of duty at the highest level and it needs to be punished severely.
Well, let’s hope the military’s classified versions of GPS receivers are a little more immune.
As old pilots will tell you, never rely 100% on electronics, always use other means of navigation such as visualizing the stars and dead reckoning gyroscopic computations.
Well, let’s hope the military’s classified versions of GPS receivers are a little more immune.
Meanwhile, Pokemon Go players are demanding access to the new weapon.
BS: Univ of TX grads spoofed a yacht off course in the wild 5 years ago.
These are merchant ships getting wrong GPS coordinates. And yes, Russia is actively preparing for war to destroy the US so as to rule the new world order of their preference.
Anyone doubting that is naive or a traitor.
What if I told you that Climate Change legislationmproves we lost the cold war... much like Germany had to pay reparations after losing WWI?
This isn't just hacking the DNC and Hillary's servers. Out defense systems are vulnerable. Keep knocking over those Gen Lee statures. They will shortly be rebuilt with Putin in the saddle.
Maybe that’s what happened to our ships in the pacific
I don’t want to believe it either, but two ships in this short of time...
This isn't just hacking the DNC and Hillary's servers. Out defense systems are vulnerable. Keep knocking over those Gen Lee statures. They will shortly be rebuilt with Putin in the saddle.
syncar sounding devices
There are more than a few instances within CONUS where sat based GPS reported the wrong coordinates. Jamming/spoofing civilian GPS receivers is not that hard.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3579213/posts Hat Tip; Enchante
Too bad they can not use the military Selective Availability Anti-Spoof Module (SAASM).
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