Never say never to hackers as they have proven that pretty much anything can be hacked, especially when protocols are designed without any thought to security. This time, security researchers placed ...

A carrier strike group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth had its automatic identification system (AIS) position faked, researchers discovered. AIS is a key maritime safety system used to track vessel ...

Communications of existing vessels can be hijacked to create fake vessels, trigger false SOS or collision alerts. With the AIS as a mandatory vessel tracking system for all passenger (regardless of ...

In the past few years, commercial shipping vessels have been required to broadcast a vessel position “transponder” similar to those used by aircraft. The system used is called AIS (Automatic ...

An ongoing disinformation campaign is causing a worldwide ship location and navigation system to falsely identify the whereabouts of western warships. The Automatic Identification System (AIS) is ...

August 23, 2021: Over the last few years there have been increasing incidents of tampering with AIS (Automated Identification System) ship tracker transponders. After 2000 a series of international ...