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 ...

For the first time, a competition saw hackers break into a US Air Force satellite in orbit. It was part of an annual event held to stress-test the satellites against real security threats. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

LAS VEGAS — Hackers in a desert in the Southwest are lobbing a barrage of cyberattacks at a U.S. government satellite on Friday — and it’s exactly what the Pentagon wanted to happen. The U.S. Air ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It seems counterintuitive for the US government to cheer on hackers targeting its satellites, but that's just what's happening this weekend at Hack-A-Sat 4. The "Hack-A-Sat," founded by the US Space ...