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Hacking Crew Breached the US Air Force Satellite In Orbit And Won $50,000

Discussion in 'other security issues & news' started by stapp, Aug 19, 2023.

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This year’s Hack-A-Sat competition challenged teams to hack into an actual satellite in orbit. The US Air Force Moonlighter, which was launched especially for the event, was the first real satellite the hackers were permitted to target.
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https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-breached-us-air-force-satellite/

stapp, Aug 19, 2023

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Teams were given the goal of breaking into Moonlighter to bypass the satellite’s limitations on the types of targets it may view on the ground, command it to snap a photograph of that target, and then download the picture to a ground station.
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Target seems an interesting choice of words. What do they do with these things?

xxJackxx, Aug 19, 2023

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