NASA patch.
30 March 2011
Paul Martin, Inspector General of NASA, said the infrastructure of the U.S. space agency would be too few secure face new cyber intrusions.
Cyber-Intrusion (Hacker)
In the aftermath of the confession of the hacker Texan Jeremy Parker, an internal investigation was conducted within NASA to determine ways to secure its servers. It must be said that Mr. Parker had accessed confidential information transmitted from the satellites to the U.S. services on behalf of scientists specialized in the study of ocean data.
"We found that the servers of all departments of the agency's missions had big security holes through the Internet, " says Martin. It specifies that six computer servers used to control the space shuttle and containing sensitive data could be infiltrated and disabled. Note also that these machines contain the information necessary to obtain more sensitive data from the highest level.
NASA has suffered numerous problems in recent years. Further intrusion revealed by Jeremy Parker last month, in May 2009, the agency networks were attacked by a group of cyber hackers who seized 22 GB of data. In December last, 10 computers belonging to the Kennedy Space Center had been sold to individuals while they still contained information deemed confidential. It also remembers the British hacker Gary McKinnon, who had penetrated from 97 machines in the Pentagon and NASA in search of information on the existence of an alien form. More recently, in January, the agency's website fell victim to SQL injection.
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