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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global issue 2002-10-08
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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 satellites are vulnerable. It is not that easy to track a point to point jamming transmission either. With a little regional help similar to a DDOS you could pulse and jam telemetry indefinitely till the thing falls down. Their encryption handshakes are low-baud and it takes up to a half hour to reinitiate.

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