Cue "Hackers" references. People are tossing smart TVs and other questionably secure internet appliances into random networks. As we add more and more convenience networks to industrial sites, these problems are going to become much more common.
This is terrifying. The article is implying that the sailors knew not to use the internal systems for anything personally sensitive but continued to use it for government business. Cyber in the government is horribly broken.
At minimum, setup some VLANs on the router to keep devices meant for personal use (tablets, cafe PCs, PS4s, etc), work use only machines, and critical systems separate from each other.
Just wild speculation but could this have anything to do with Galileo being down? I know that it was in Feb, but maybe it took that long to find out how they were "attacked"?
A commercial ship travelling across the ocean was compromised by malware and you somehow think that is connected to an outage of a global navigation system?
I'm not clear whether you think this incident is a cause or an effect of the Galileo outage but, either way, that's a helluva jump!
