▲ 34 ▼ Hackers are Attacking Observatories (www.universetoday.com) submitted 2 years ago by freeman@lemmy.pub to c/technology@beehaw.org 6 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] storksforlegs@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child) This is very weird, what possible benefit would that be to going after observatories? permalink fedilink source hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] freeman@lemmy.pub [S] 7 points 2 years ago* Honestly the only thing I can think of is the competition recently to hack a satellite, maybe has drawn the ire of some script kids, or rather interest. [1][2][3] I LOT of educational and research stuff is quite open, and often very resistant to change as they value access/transmissibility over security in many cases where theres no real grounds (ie: its not national secrets etc). Some of these datasets are quite large. Even still basic things like firewalls, key based access etc should be setupo. Heck if its a multi-million dollar instrument airgapping is probably worth its time. But i dunno. Just conjecture on my part. The competition definately brought some attention [4] [1] https://www.newsweek.com/eight-teams-hackers-will-compete-breach-us-satellite-space-1808270 [2] https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3341747/hack-a-sat-competition-highlights-on-orbit-hacking/ [3] https://www.space.com/satellite-hacking-hack-a-sat-competition-winners [4] https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/08/national-intelligence-office-issues-cyber-warning-government-and-commercial-satellites/389671/ permalink fedilink source parent
[–] freeman@lemmy.pub [S] 7 points 2 years ago* Honestly the only thing I can think of is the competition recently to hack a satellite, maybe has drawn the ire of some script kids, or rather interest. [1][2][3] I LOT of educational and research stuff is quite open, and often very resistant to change as they value access/transmissibility over security in many cases where theres no real grounds (ie: its not national secrets etc). Some of these datasets are quite large. Even still basic things like firewalls, key based access etc should be setupo. Heck if its a multi-million dollar instrument airgapping is probably worth its time. But i dunno. Just conjecture on my part. The competition definately brought some attention [4] [1] https://www.newsweek.com/eight-teams-hackers-will-compete-breach-us-satellite-space-1808270 [2] https://www.afrl.af.mil/News/Article-Display/Article/3341747/hack-a-sat-competition-highlights-on-orbit-hacking/ [3] https://www.space.com/satellite-hacking-hack-a-sat-competition-winners [4] https://www.defenseone.com/threats/2023/08/national-intelligence-office-issues-cyber-warning-government-and-commercial-satellites/389671/ permalink fedilink source parent