Remotely hacking ships shouldn't be this easy, and yet ...

The Internet of Things has shown us time and time again that nothing connected to the internet is safe from hackers, and yet we've mostly written off security-camera fueled botnets as someone else's problem. 

But what if the thing in question happens to be a boat loaded with weapons?

A group of cybersecurity researchers is having a field day online with the discovery that the configuration of certain ships' satellite antenna systems leaves them wide open to attack — and the possible consequences are startling. Read more...