Technology that depends on satellite-navigation systems, like GPS, is increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated attacks. GPS signals can be jammed or spoofed — fooled into thinking that they are at a different time or location. “You can now buy a low-cost simulator and link it to Google Earth, put on a route and it will simulate that route to the timing that you specify,” said said David Last, former president of the Royal Institute of Navigation, speaking at a UK conference. “A GPS receiver overcome by it will behave as if you’re travelling along that route.” Link to full story in BBC.com.
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