Space: The Last Bastion Against Cyberattacks
Space: The Last Bastion Against Cyberattacks This week, a large lunar settlement experienced a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) assault that rendered all electronic door locks inoperable, trapping scores of people inside and keeping many more out in the bitter cold. The threat actor behind the attack is said to have taken control of a number of decades-old CubeSats last year in an attempt to use them to set off a series of possibly catastrophic satellite collisions. Naturally, neither "incident" has actually occurred. Still. However, it's possible that they will happen at some point in the not-too-distant future, so it's best to start making plans and thinking about them now. That's the conclusion drawn from a recent study on outer space cyberattacks by academics at California Polytechnic State Read More......