"Hack-A-Sat" is holding its fourth annual competition at the DEF CON conference in Las Vegas. The contest is sponsored by the US government and has a prize of $50,000. The competition is meant to help ...

Researchers said they could access an imaging satellite’s control interface, letting them manipulate its systems and introduce malicious code. Reading time 3 minutes Just how vulnerable are the ...

With the rise of commercial satellite operations, the security of these systems has become more critical now than ever. As society moves into the future, the need for protection against malicious ...

Join us on Wednesday, October 18 at noon Pacific for the Satellite Hunting Hack Chat with Scott Tilley! From the very first beeps of Sputnik, space has primarily been the domain of nations. It makes ...

Why it matters: At this year's summer edition of the DEFCON conference, which is scheduled for mid-August in Las Vegas, security professionals and white hat hackers will have the chance to try the ...

Although it might appear paradoxical for the U.S. government to encourage hackers to focus on its satellites, that's precisely the case at the "Hack-A-Sat" event that is currently taking place.

A small satellite will soon give hackers an off-planet test bed. Moonlighter, the first hacking sandbox in space, reached the International Space Station on Tuesday morning. It should exit the space ...

Rendering of the Moonlighter satellite. image credit: The Aerospace Corporation. For the first time, researchers launched a satellite into space with the expressed hope that hackers will find and ...

Members of mHACKeroni accept their prize for winning Hack-a-Sat. Image credit: Sarah McNulty, Space Systems Command. Lots of strange and disconcerting things have been hacked at the annual DEF CON ...

A security engineer and a hacker used off-the-shelf equipment to get a satellite navigation system to convey false information, illustrating a major security hole Two security experts have discovered ...

Hackers are competing to be the first to crack into a U.S. government satellite in a contest administrated by the Pentagon. Officials with the Air Force and Space Force organized the Las Vegas ...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China on Tuesday launched the world's first quantum satellite, which will help it establish "hack-proof" communications between space and the ground, state media said, the latest ...