{"id":52583,"date":"2025-06-30T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=52583"},"modified":"2025-06-30T13:51:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T08:21:08","slug":"gps-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/gps-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"GPS Interference"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>GPS Interference Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Recently, three mishaps in recent years had a common cause of GPS interference which has emerged as one of the biggest challenges for seafaring vessels and aircraft.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About GPS Interference<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It refers to <\/span><b>spoofing or jamming<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, two types of deliberate cyber-attacks <\/span><b>on Global Positioning System (GPS) signals,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which disrupt or deceive vehicles\u2019 navigation systems.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While both are often used synonymously with each other, spoofing and jamming refer to slightly different kinds of interference.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>GPS jamming, also known as GPS intervention,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> involves a device (jammer) emitting strong radio signals on <\/span><b>GPS frequencies in order to overpower weaker signals<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. This disrupts the <\/span><b>functioning of GPS systems<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> by rendering receivers unable to determine location or time.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><b>GPS spoofing involves<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> a device transmitting <\/span><b>signals on the same frequencies<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> used by <\/span><b>GPS satellites,<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> overwhelming or blocking the GPS receivers from acquiring or maintaining the right satellite signals.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unlike jamming, which disrupts signals entirely, spoofing deceives the <\/span><b>receiver into trusting false data.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GPS interference can <\/span><b>disrupt both military and civilian transport<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> operations from afar, without physical confrontation.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">GPS interference can occur due to various reasons, <\/span><b>not all of them malicious.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">These include electromagnetic radiation from nearby devices, adverse <\/span><b>atmospheric conditions like ionospheric disturbances<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, solar activity (such as flares), and, of course, intentional jamming\/spoofing.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Most often, countries with advanced electronic warfare capabilities and involved in an active conflict are responsible.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While interference may or may not be targeted at civilian vessels, those in the vicinity, relying on the same GPS infrastructure, are nonetheless susceptible.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/how-gps-interference-threatens-global-transportation-10094956\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><b>IE<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GPS Interference refers to spoofing or jamming, two types of deliberate cyber-attacks on Global Positioning System (GPS) signals, which disrupt or deceive vehicles\u2019 navigation systems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":52698,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1169,21,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-52583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-gps-interference","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","11":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}