NASA. The famous American agency confirmed this week a major hack of its systems, achieved surprisingly quite easily, and this raises a lot of question marks regarding its activity. Specifically, NASA confirmed that 500 MB of data about an important space mission was stolen by a hacker who used a Raspberry Pi computer to access the data and download it.
NASA. Everything happened last year, and the Americans do not provide many details regarding the exact data that were stolen, but considering that they are related to a space mission, it is clear that they are very important. The problem is that NASA has confirmed that its data was stolen with a Raspberry Pi computer, very cheap, but apparently powerful enough to facilitate the extraction of important information about its space missions.
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NASA. The hack was possible through an account in its internal system, which belonged to an employee of a partner company, which was compromised by a hacker, who stole data on space missions. For 10 months, no one managed to discover the fact that NASA systems were hacked, 23 files with information about missions were stolen, two of them advanced data about the transfer of military and space technologies, including a project related to the planet Mars.
"NASA, in an audit report, revealed that in April 2018, JPL discovered an account that belonged to an external user was compromised, and was used to steal about 500 MB of data from one of its major mission systems. The account was compromised by a hacker who used a Raspberry Pi to gain unauthorized access to the JPL network. The attacker then took advantage of the weaknesses in the laboratory's network to remain undetected for 10 months, stealing 23 files in the process. Two of these files contained information on International Traffic in Arms Regulations, which controls the transfer of military and space-related technology."
NASA. The space agency's computer system administrators are partly to blame for this security breach, they failed to make the security settings correctly, so that third-party devices were connected to their network. Thanks to these "leaks", the NASA network was infiltrated by a hacker, who stole very sensitive information, the problem being so serious that the center that coordinates the International Space Station was disconnected from the agency's network.
NASA. Although the identity of the hacker is not known, those within the agency were afraid that the hackers could send messages to the space missions of the Americans, but so far this has not happened.