27 October 2011

Hackers Interfered With Two U.S. Satellites, Draft Report Says

Computer hackers, possibly from the Chinese military, interfered with two U.S. government satellites four times in 2007 and 2008 through a ground station in Norway, according to the final draft of a report by a congressional commission
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A Landsat-7 earth observation satellite system experienced 12 or more minutes of interference in October 2007 and July 2008, according to the report.
Hackers interfered with a Terra AM-1 earth observation satellite twice, for two minutes in June 2008 and nine minutes in October of that year, the draft says, citing a closed-door U.S. Air Force briefing.
The draft report doesn't elaborate on the nature of the hackers' interference with the satellites
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The U.S. discovered the 2007 cyber attack on the Landsat-7, which is jointly managed by NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, only after tracking the 2008 breach.

Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/10/26/bloomberg_articlesLTOTAZ6K50YS.DTL#ixzz1bzZSNTkZ




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