A Surprising Amount of Satellite Traffic Is Unencrypted – Schneier on Security
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- A study using a commercial satellite dish revealed significant unencrypted traffic from geostationary satellites.
- Unencrypted data includes critical infrastructure, corporate and government communications, private calls, SMS, and consumer internet traffic.
- This sensitive data can be intercepted with inexpensive consumer-grade hardware.
- Thousands of geostationary satellite transponders exist globally, with data from one transponder potentially visible over 40% of Earth's surface.
- Vendors lack auditing tools to assess their own satellite backhaul security.
- SATCOM Security offers assistance in determining if network traffic has been exposed.