hackers took control two military satellites

[coolkasun]

According to a US report recently claimed that hackers had managed to interfere with two military satellites, but one expert argues the amount of energy required would be too great for ordinary hackers.


The hackers took control of the Landsat-7 and Terra AM-1 satellites for a grand total of 12 minutes and two minutes respectively.


One might hope that the communications satellites suspended in orbit above the earth might be one component of the planet’s technology infrastructure that is safely out of harm’s way.

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But as satellite communications enthusiast Paul Marsh explained at the London Security B-Sides event in April, there are reasons to doubt the reports. He spoke about a similar story, reported in the late 1990s, about hackers supposedly accessing UK military satellite communications network SkyNet and ‘nudging’ one satellite out of synch.


Whether Chinese hackers have that capability now is just one more matter of speculation to add to the opaque field of cyber warfare.

http://thehackernews.com/2012/05/hackers-took-control-of-two-satellites.html

 

[lilman]

me yakku nuclear weapons active kaloth nam anaatai ban

 

[HallowMan]

එතකොට මේක කාගෙ වැඩක්ද?

A complex targeted cyber-attack that collected private data from countries such as Israel and Iran has been uncovered, researchers have said.
This new threat appears not to cause physical damage, but to collect huge amounts of sensitive information, said Kaspersky's chief malware expert Vitaly Kamluk.
"Once a system is infected, Flame begins a complex set of operations, including sniffing the network traffic, taking screenshots, recording audio conversations, intercepting the keyboard, and so on,"

http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-18238326#?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

These are not ordinary hackers probably government involved.

 

[Max_r]

Oops :O

 

[Kosala_Wickramasinghe]

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[Kosala_Wickramasinghe]

 

[chamil32]

:O

 

[dgvirajm]

Damn!
Genius Level Over 9000

 

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