Commercial shipping environments are rife with vulnerabilities, according to researchers. Unpatched mystery boxes that no one knows anything about, they say. In one case, a monitoring system was uncovered whose purpose was not known although it was connected to the main engine. Pen Test Partners has shown in the past that the global shipping industry is vulnerable to a range of hacks and flaws that are trivial to exploit and easy to mitigate. Each new system installed is another source of complexity, experts say.
Source: https://threatpost.com/on-board-mystery-boxes-threaten-global-shipping-vessels/149211/