Mark Rockwell Top Priority Sector: disaster_preparedness_emergency_response Image Caption: Damage onNew Jersey shore Precisely detailed geospatial satellite imagery is being used by FEMA to see into areas most damaged by Hurricane Sandy to help qualify storm survivors for two months of rental assistance. Homepage position: 10 read more View full post…
Satellite communication encryption cracked by scientists
Researchers at a university in Bochum, Germany claim to have cracked encryption algorithms of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) that are used to secure certain civilian satellite phone communications. The Ruhr University Bochum’s (RUB) Horst Görtz Institute for IT security today issued an announcement detailing how researchers there have…
Satellite phone encryption cracked by German researchers
German researchers claim they have found weaknesses in two commonly-used satellite encryption protocols that could render them vulnerable to eavesdropping in real time. In the paper titled Don’t Trust Satellite Phones (currently available only as an abstract), Benedikt Driessen and Ralf Hund of Ruhr University describe how they reverse engineered…
Hacker satellite grid to counter Internet censorship
The Hackerspace Global Grid is hoping to build its own satellite network in an effort to counter various Internet censorship initiatives such as the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) act. In addition to launching communications satellites into space, the group plans to develop a grid of ground stations to…
Hackers Plan Satellite System to Sidestep Censorship
The ‘Hackerspace Global Grid’ will include satellites in orbit, along with ground stations to track and communicate with them. View full post on eSecurityPlanet RSS Feed View full post on National Cyber Security