Satellite Communications (SATCOM) play a vital role in the global
telecommunications system. IOActive evaluated the security posture of the most
widely deployed Inmarsat and Iridium SATCOM terminals.
IOActive found that malicious actors could abuse all of the devices within the scope
of this study. The vulnerabilities included what would appear to be backdoors,
hardcoded credentials, undocumented and/or insecure protocols, and weak
encryption algorithms. In addition to design flaws, IOActive also uncovered a
number of features in the devices that clearly pose security risks.
The findings of IOActive’s research should serve as an initial wake-up call for both
the vendors and users of the current generation of SATCOM technology
more here......http://www.ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_SATCOM_Security_WhitePaper.pdf
telecommunications system. IOActive evaluated the security posture of the most
widely deployed Inmarsat and Iridium SATCOM terminals.
IOActive found that malicious actors could abuse all of the devices within the scope
of this study. The vulnerabilities included what would appear to be backdoors,
hardcoded credentials, undocumented and/or insecure protocols, and weak
encryption algorithms. In addition to design flaws, IOActive also uncovered a
number of features in the devices that clearly pose security risks.
The findings of IOActive’s research should serve as an initial wake-up call for both
the vendors and users of the current generation of SATCOM technology
more here......http://www.ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_SATCOM_Security_WhitePaper.pdf