Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks

Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks
Kevin Poulsen, SecurityFocus 2002-10-03

Want to find the most-ignored cybersecurity hole in America's critical infrastructure? Congressional investigators say, Look up!

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-04
Anonymous (1 replies)

The publicly released draft of the President's policy on securing cyberspace estimates that 85% of the nation's "Critical Infrastructure" is managed by private companies. At the same time, the vast majority of "recommendations" included in the draft policy are addressed to the federal government. ...

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-08
Anonymous (1 replies)

What market forces? Simple. The same ones that drive companies to create backups, install firewalls and employ security guards. Obviously it is in a company's long-term best interest to implement these safeguards. Inevitably satellite companies will take the appropriate action if they conclude their...

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-10
Anonymous

Hmmm... What company do you work for? Most of the ones that I've seen do a very poor job at security...certainly not adequate for protecting the "critical infrastructure?...

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-04
Anonymous (2 replies)

with as many "security professionals" that there are that read this site, i kind of have to feel like this is negligent journalism, offering a challenge to those who might enjoy disrupting such an important system for our govt....

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-06
Stauf (1 replies)

Please. There is no danger is saying something we all talked about at defcon IV. This is a well known fact, and security through obscurity doesn't help the issue. We need to prod people into action...and the people who would disrupt the communication already know the techniques and skills. NEVER...

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-07
Anonymous

Absolutely agree with the non-obscurity stance.

Obviously later than expected even government realizes that there is no such thing as absolute security an that technology contributes towards making life even more complex

in relation to keeping an acceptalbe security-level to stay clear of the bad ...

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-07
Anonymous (1 replies)

Whow, we should censore the information posted on the net. Great! next time, put a program that spies every phrase for words like security, satellite, or simply don't publish the fack, so that noone will even bother to fix it, and the bug will still exist.

I think some people would be glad about th...

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global issue 2002-10-08
Anonymous

I have seen some of the satellite management infrastructure (ground stations) in Europe and Canada. I think that this vulnerability exists in many service environments, even in "government run" ones... ...

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-08
Anonymous

Did you know that a university student in Umeå, Sweden woke up one morning and in his student room there where people from DOD, FBI and swedish secret police(SÄPO). They toke all his computer equipment and toke him in for questioning. They said he had stole the source code for DOD satellite-system.
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Satellite DOS attacks have ALWAYS been possible. 2002-10-09
Anonymous

Back in the day of captain midnight and probably available today are 100W uplinks for less than a few grand. These babies installed on a home satellite dish and tuned properly can jam just about any signal going to a C/Ku satellite. I don't know about new satellites, but 90% of commercial satellit...

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-09
Anonymous (1 replies)

Right after the Captain Midnight incident, the satellite owner/operators were worried about being hacked and wanted to know if they were vulnerable. We did a brief risk assessment and found that surplus RF gear capable of sending commands and getting telemetry or jamming the payload side were easy ...

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-12
Mahipal (India) (1 replies)

I do not realy think that attacking a communication satellite or hacking a control channel is so easy. The reason being, these satellites use a very narrow beam with high power to transmit control signals and also the recieving antennas on the satellites are pointing always towards the earth station...

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Report: Satellites at Risk of Hacks 2002-10-15
Ann (Can)

It surely is not easy, but it is not too difficult. Check out the story from Washing Post Sept 25, that one of China's main television satellites was hijacked again....

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