Cybersecurity
May 17, 2022
LOS ANGELES — Frank Turner, technical director of the Space Development Agency, is a man with a lot of problems, and he doesn’t mind talking about them. “I'm not standing here today giving you answers,” he told an audience of satellite industry executives at the CyberLEO conference. “I'm standing here today giving you problems. I'm…
May 13, 2022
LOS ANGELES — MITRE, the federal contractor that runs R&D labs for the U.S. government, is developing a space cyber lab where real satellite hardware and software can be tested to ensure security. It’s just one of a host of new measures that space companies are adopting to harden their systems against hackers, panelists at the CyberLEO…
May 12, 2022
LOS ANGELES — The U.S. Space Force is offering free, non-attributable cybersecurity supply chain and vulnerability scanning services to both its commercial vendors and to other government agencies, Col. Jennifer Krolikowski, the chief information officer for Space Systems Command (SSC), confirmed Thursday. Speaking to attendees at the CyberLEO cyber security conference in Los Angeles on…
May 11, 2022
Russia is responsible for cyber attacks against commercial satellite communications networks in late February to disrupt Ukraine’s command and control efforts at the outset of Russia’s invasion of the country, the U.S. government and European Union (EU) said on Tuesday. The cyber attack also impacted other countries in Europe by disabling very small aperture terminals…