Imagine the havoc a fake news of an 8.1 Richter Scale earthquake hitting New York would cause.
Is such a thing possible?
Yes, say two security researchers from Costa Rica.
They found that it was possible to fake Earthquakes by hacking seismometers deployed at different locations around the world.
However, the two researchers found that these seismometers are connected to the internet with no security protections.
The average attacker is not interested, but governments might be, Jara said.
Youre playing with devices that measure natural disasters.
This could lead to financial sabotage against a particular country or company.
The other Nanometrics product, Trillian was designed for rough environments like ocean floors or South Pole.
It ran on a version of Linux that still was susceptible to the two-year-old.
What if you denied service to multiple devices at once?
You could mess up some expensive research.
In other words, they could make it look like an earthquake had occurred when none actually had.
In turn, the researchers said, US-CERT had notified the vendors.
source: www.techworm.net
