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With so many companies striving hard to make the journey to the Moon a reality, NASA gets closer to the dream. It is now accepting proposals for moon landers from companies involved in space exploration. NASA aims to receive the human moon landers’ proposals by November 1, which is is the organization’s final call after […]
Outer space’s first-ever cyber crime? It seems so. The US space agency NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has confirmed that it is currently investigating an incident involving one of its astronauts who might have committed the first-ever cyber crime in outer space. According to The New York Times, astronaut Anne McClain allegedly accessed her […]
An unprecedented event related to cybersecurity and space missions was revealed this weekend. According to web application security specialists, a National Space Agency (NASA) astronaut has been accused of unauthorized access to his ex-wife’s bank account while on an agency mission, in what could be the first cybercrime perpetrated from the space. Former US Air […]
After facing a technical snag in GSLV-Mk-III rocket last week, the Chandrayaan-2 was successfully launched today at 2:43 pm. It is India’s second lunar mission after the success of Chandrayaan-1 11 years ago which created history by being operational for 312 days and making over 3,400 orbits around the moon. Chandrayaan-2 will take almost 7 […]
The Global Positioning System or GPS has become ubiquitous today. The system is widely used to find locations anywhere on Earth, preventing car thefts, mappings and surveys, and for tracking your pets amongst other applications. Now, NASA is planning to develop a GPS system for the moon for its Artemis missions. A team at NASA […]
When you want to know everything related to space and science, NASA is the one-stop platform for all of us. They always bring new discoveries and amazing theories. However, it seems even the largest aeronautical research agency in the world is not safe from cyber criminals. The latest report issued by the Office of the […]
According to the report, the hack took place back in 2018 after an unauthorized Raspberry Pi device connected to NASA’s JPL servers was targeted by hackers Note: The headline of this article has been changed. The previous one stated that hackers used a Raspberry Pi device to hack into NASA’s system which was not correct. […]
Raspberry Pi is a teeny-tiny device that can be tinkered with to gain deceptively high capabilities. This has been proved by a recent report which confirmed that a NASA lab was hacked using a Raspberry Pi. The breach occurred in April 2018 where NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) was hacked and 500MB of data from […]
NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory was hacked in April last year; According to IT system audit experts, threat actors managed to steal around 500 MB of data about the missions carried out in this lab. Recently revealed incident reports mention that hackers used a Raspberry Pi board to access compromised systems. According to reports from the […]
As part of making the International Space Station (ISS) open to commercialization, NASA will allow private citizens a chance to stay at ISS for a 30-day long trip. While this sounds like a new offbeat destination for our vacation, the trip definitely wouldn’t be a cheap affair. It is suggested that the voyage will cost […]
Donald Trump and trolls have had a connection in the past and this bond continues as the US President is all over the internet being trolled for what looks like a lack of science tuition back when he was a kid. Trump, via a tweet, suggested that NASA should not focus on going to the […]
The agency is in the process of notifying employees affected by this security incident The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is notifying its employees of a data breach in its systems, an incident that exposed the social security numbers of the agency’s employees, among other personal details, as cybersecurity experts from the International Institute of […]
Another day, another data breach – This time, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has suffered a data breach in which personal data of the agency’s employees have been stolen. In a notification obtained by SpaceRef, the data breach was identified on October 23rd, 2018. The initial analysis revealed that unknown hackers may have […]
Apparently, 4chan hackers conducted the cyber attack to stop a group of three African American school girls from winning the NASA’s competition. NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration) has announced that the voting system for its Optimus Prime Spinoff Promotion and Research Challenge or OPSPARC was hit by a cyber attack that aimed at changing […]
The developers at NASA have one of the most challenging jobs in the programming world. They write code and develop mission-critical applications with safety as their primary concerns. In such situations, it’s important to follow some serious coding guidelines. These rules cover different aspects of software development like how a software should be written, which […]
SpaceX has begun, on average, about 1.5 times per period during this year. From that view, the company’s 16th launch of 2017 may not appear all that spectacular. After all, posting something like the Koreasat-5A business communications satellite to a geostationary transfer orbit is growing old hat for the new space company. However, Monday’s launch […]
About one month ago, the HPE’s Spaceborne Computer was launched into the space using SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft. This beast was launched as a result of a partnership between Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) and NASA to find out how high-performance computers perform in space. Now, this supercomputer is fully installed and operational in ISS. The performance experiment […]
Short Bytes: NASA has announced a public challenge named High Performance Fast Computing Challenge (HPFCC) to get help from programmers for improving the FUN3D software. NASA is offering the prizes of $15,000 and $10,000 to top contributors. FUN3D is written in Fortran programming language and the contest is limited to the US citizens. NASA’s FUN3D project was […]
ANONSEC Group hackers Cracked NASA Drone and Released Data Dump Hackers cracked National Aeronautics and Space Administration drone and free information dump . They additionally disclosed they tried to bring down a $222m world Hawk Drone into the Pacific. beside many flight videos and thousands of flight logs. the info dump enclosed phone numbers and […]
Walter O’Brien is a well-known name in the world of computer and cyber security. Although he is famous today as the founder and CEO of Scorpion Computer Services and the executive producer of the hit CBS show Scorpion, Walter was well-known far before that. At age 13 he hacked into NASA’s servers that were administered […]
“Ridiculously optimistic” machine learning algorithm is “completely bullshit,” says expert. In 2014, the former director of both the CIA and NSA proclaimed that “we kill people based on metadata.” Now, a new examination of previously published Snowden documents suggests that many of those people may have been innocent. Last year, The Intercept published documents detailing the […]