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The first capture the flag with an real-time in-orbit satellite took place over the weekend at the DEF CON conference.
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Hackers at DEF CON will compete to break into a cubesat dubbed Moonlighter at a one-of-a-kind capture the flag.
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Experts call for improvements to space cybersecurity as sectors such as energy, agriculture and finance rely more on satellite networks.
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An international group of experts are working to build the next generation of secure-by-design space systems.
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The influential Cyberspace Solarium Commission is calling for space systems to be the 17th critical infrastructure sector.
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As threats against space systems increase, a new tool aims to improve efforts to defend against cyberattacks.
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The agency said it discovered the Russian hacking group in a satellite communications provider with critical infrastructure customers.
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First, U.S. authorities say, SpaceX engineer James Roland Jones tried to fake his way into a dark web insider trading forum, but that didn’t work out very well. Afterward, he still managed to sell fake insider trading information on the dark web anyway, according to the Securities and Exchange Commission. And on top of that, he bought sensitive personal information from a hard-to-reach forum with the goal of making transactions based on purported insider info, according to the Justice Department. (U.S. authorities did not disclose the names of the companies from which Jones claimed to have inside information.) Now, after the FBI used some of Jones’ own methods on him, he has pleaded guilty on charges of conspiracy to commit securities fraud. And the SEC has filed a complaint against the man who also went by the name “MillionaireMike” seeking to recoup his ill-gotten gains and civil penalties. It’s all […]
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For David Cowan, the tipping point was a cyberattack from Anonymous. Cowan, a venture capitalist at Bessemer Venture Partners, had spent years asking startup founders what they planned to do if hackers targeted their business. Often, the founders on the other side of the boardroom would shrug and say, “We don’t hold any personal information, so they don’t need to come after us.” That changed, he said, after the email marketing company SendGrid was hit in 2013 with a denial-of-service attack that ultimately caused about 20 percent of the young company’s clients to walk away, not too long after Bessemer had led a $21 million funding round for the company The attack occurred after an employee, Adria Richards, publicly complained that a developer from the gaming company Playhaven made sexual remarks in the audience at the 2013 PyCon tech conference. Playhaven fired the employee, infuriating an online mob that sent Richards death threats. Anonymous got involved too, […]
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