A French security researcher has found that satellite ground stations on some ships expose services over the internet and permit access to their web administration consoles using default credentials. The discovery was announced Tuesday on Twitter by a French researcher who uses the handle @x0rz (https://twitter.com/x0Rz) He was experimenting with a new service from the Shodan search engine that tracks ships with very small aperture terminal (VSAT) antennas and publicly reachable web services. Altering this equipments configuration may lead to loss of satellite connection which could affect all connected instruments.”]