Confirmed: NASA Has Been Hacked

TL;DR

The U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) this week confirmed that its Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) has been hacked. An audit document from the U.S. Office of the Inspector General was published by NASA this week. It reveals that an unauthorized Raspberry Pi computer connected to the JPL servers was targeted by hackers, who then moved laterally further into the NASA network. How much further? Well, the hackers apparently got as far as the Deep Space Network (DSN) array of radio telescopes and numerous other JPL systems.

[–] moot 1 points (+1|-0)

Wow, you would expect NASA of all agencies to have better protection. Raspberry Pis are even sophisticated at all

[–] E-werd [OP] 0 points (+0|-0)

It's not really a matter of sophistication, they're ultimately the same as a normal computer as far as the network itself is concerned. What's concerning is that such a sensitive facility is not requiring something like 802.1x which probably would have prevented this issue.

Confirmed: NASA Has Been Hacked

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