This sad news item:
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/hackers-attack-2-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-telescopes-forcing-shutdown
came to my attention.
On 31/08/2023 13:49, Quadibloc wrote:
This sad news item:
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/hackers-attack-2-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-telescopes-forcing-shutdown
came to my attention.
It was ever thus from the moment that some big telescopes had remote
dialup access for filing observing plans over 1200/75 modem links. Once
there is external remote access there will be penetration attempts.
The thing that is unusual in this instance is that the external hackers
got past the honeypots and hacker traps without being detected.
This sad news item:
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/hackers-attack-2-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-telescopes-forcing-shutdown
came to my attention.
John Savard
On Thursday, 31 August 2023 at 08:49:59 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
This sad news item:
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/hackers-attack-2-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-telescopes-forcing-shutdown
came to my attention.
John Savard
Notice how hard it is the glean location information (hacker's location) from these stories? I wonder why?
On Thu, 31 Aug 2023 16:55:27 +0100, Martin Brown
<'''newspam'''@nonad.co.uk> wrote:
On 31/08/2023 13:49, Quadibloc wrote:
This sad news item:
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/hackers-attack-2-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-telescopes-forcing-shutdown
came to my attention.
It was ever thus from the moment that some big telescopes had remote
dialup access for filing observing plans over 1200/75 modem links. Once
there is external remote access there will be penetration attempts.
The thing that is unusual in this instance is that the external hackers
got past the honeypots and hacker traps without being detected.
I would think it should be perfectly possible to create an air gap
between the Internet and the telescope control systems, though.
Hackers could interfere with operations, but not put the hardware at
risk.
Indeed, a standalone command evaluation system (possibly AI-based)
might assess every potentially risky telescope operation before it is actually passed to instrumentation hardware.
On 01/09/2023 04:31, RichA wrote:
On Thursday, 31 August 2023 at 08:49:59 UTC-4, Quadibloc wrote:
This sad news item:
https://www.livescience.com/space/astronomy/hackers-attack-2-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-telescopes-forcing-shutdown
came to my attention.
John Savard
Notice how hard it is the glean location information (hacker's location) from these stories? I wonder why?
Any half decent hacker will have covered their tracks.
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