Collaborate Disseminate
Geosynchronous satellites, girdling the Earth from their perches 36,000 km above the equator, are remarkably useful devices. Depending on where they’re parked, they command views of perhaps a third of the globe at a time, making them perfect communications relays. But as [James Pavur] points out in his DEF CON …read more
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Can a video game help your company’s staff choose stronger passwords? Why might satellite-based internet communications be bad for security? And what are the alternatives to TikTok?
All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of t… Continue reading Smashing Security podcast #191: We are on the bird
It may be named after the most famous volleyball in history, but “Wilson” isn’t just a great conversationalist. [Hayden Brophy] built the free-drifting satellite buoy to see if useful science can be done with off-the-shelf hardware and on a shoestring budget. And from the look of the data so far, …read more
Continue reading Drone Buoy Drifts Along the Gulf Stream for Citizen Science
Launched in 2018 as the successor to the Kepler Space Telescope, NASA had high hopes for its Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) when it comes to finding other worlds that resemble our own. The space telescope has now wrapped up the primary ph… Continue reading NASA hails primary mission of planet-hunting TESS a “roaring success”
By Zara Khan
The author of the research identified that hackers can target a Satellite with merely a $300 device.
This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Satellite Internet connections can easily be intercepted by hackers
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Attackers can listen in on internet traffic for high-value targets a continent away, like shipping fleets and oil installations, using some basic home-television gear. Continue reading Black Hat 2020: Satellite Comms Globally Open to $300 Eavesdropping Hack
Next time your GPS app functions without interruption, or a credit card transaction is approved on the first try, consider thanking a hacker. Both of those everyday activities, along with many others, are made possible in part because of satellites, those orbiting chunks of metal that only a fraction of the population thinks about on a regular basis. Now, though, security-minded officials in the Pentagon’s Defense Digital Service (DDS), the Air Force and New York-based vendor Red Balloon Security are trying to improve satellite security by sending computer researchers the technology they would need to hack them. It’s part of an effort to ensure that those big satellites orbiting the Earth remain reliable, and keep the GPS navigation running. One research challenge, called Nyan-Sat, is broken up into three parts. Hackers are building their own satellite tracking antennae, exploiting a ground station modem, and then participating in a live-streamed ground station event. […]
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Amateur radio operators like to say that working a contact in space can be done with a simple handheld transceiver and a homemade antenna. And while that’s true, it’s true only for low Earth orbit satellites such as the ISS. If you want to reach a satellite in geosynchronous orbit …read more
Continue reading A Hybrid Helical Antenna for the Es’hail-2 Geosynchronous Repeater
On 12 July, 2017, one of the biggest icebergs ever seen broke off from the Antarctic mainland. Now on the third anniversary of the event, satellite data has shown that the berg has traveled over 1,000 km (620 mi) and managed to stay relatively intact.C… Continue reading Satellites show huge Antarctic iceberg drifted 1,000 km in three years
Researchers have managed to demonstrate quantum entanglement on a small satellite orbiting Earth. The team developed a miniaturized device that can produce pairs of photons that are inextricably linked, which could help launch a fast and secure quantum… Continue reading Quantum entanglement demonstrated on tiny CubeSat in orbit