Texas GPS Spoofing Fools $80M Superyacht, Leads Boat In Circles [Video]
In Texas, GPS spoofing fooled a $80 million superyacht into traveling way off course.
As previously reported by The Inquisitr, GPS spoofing might be liked by US students required to wear locator chips.
The US unmanned drone GPS system is claimed to be vulnerable to hacking. The drones could be fooled into going off-course. So perhaps in Texas GPS spoofing is being used in a similar manner.
GPS spoofing has apparently been around for about 20 years. The University of Texas’ GPS spoofing device was built by several PhDs for about $2,000. Apparently, the GPS spoofing device is simple enough to use that even a child could do it (have you seen what kids can do with smartphones?).
The University of Texas’ GPS spoofing device is about the size of a laptop. GPS spoofing works by counterfeiting GPS signals until authentic GPS signals are overridden. GPS spoofing can allow an attacker to give a false course to a vehicle, or in this case a $80 million superyacht that comes with GPS navigation systems designed to detect GPS problems or GPS jamming.
The team explains how dangerous the University of Texas’ GPS spoofing device could be:
“It’s pretty breath-taking really. You wouldn’t need to be onboard the vessel, you could be miles away on another ship. Iif you were airborne, you could be 20 to 30 miles away. All that matters is that by the time your signal arrives at the vessel, it’s stronger than the real signal.”
What do you think about the University of Texas’ GPS spoofing device?
