Researcher: Not Hard For A Hacker To Capsize A Ship At Sea

During the course of a cyber attack, a hacker can easily capsize an entire ship with relatively low-key skills.
Critical ship control systems, including IP-to-serial converters, GPS receivers or the Voyage Data Recorder (VDR), tend to be easily compromised.
Many onboard devices for instance still run Windows XP and Windows NT, and converters rarely have their admin passwords changed.
Those that do have non-default credentials will likely have such out of date firmware that they’re easily...