{"id":310925,"date":"2019-06-21T08:12:53","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=310925"},"modified":"2019-06-21T08:13:28","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T06:13:28","slug":"a-raspberry-pi-was-used-to-hack-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/310925-a-raspberry-pi-was-used-to-hack-nasa.html","title":{"rendered":"A Raspberry Pi was used to hack NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a <a href=\"https:\/\/oig.nasa.gov\/docs\/IG-19-022.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>report<\/strong><\/a> detailing cybersecurity incidents at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which includes insight into how a Raspberry Pi was used to hack into NASA&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Over the past 10 years, JPL has experienced several notable cybersecurity incidents that have compromised major segments of its IT network,&#8221; the OIG stated.<\/p>\n<p>In 2011, hackers gained full access to JPL&#8217;s servers and stole approximately 87GB of data, while a more recent hack in April 2018 saw attackers stealing around 500MB of data from one of NASA&#8217;s major mission systems.<\/p>\n<p>The latter of these cyber attacks was facilitated through the exploitation of an unauthorised Raspberry Pi computer attached to the JPL network.<\/p>\n<p>A Rapsberry Pi is a credit card-sized microcomputer which offers similar functionality to a standard desktop computer, and subsequently it must be protected from any exploitation using the same level of security reserved for other computers connected to a secure network.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The device should not have been permitted on the JPL network without the JPL OCIO\u2019s review and approval,&#8221; the OIG said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/310643-critical-security-flaw-in-firefox-update-now.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Critical security flaw in Firefox \u2013 Update now<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Office of the Inspector General (OIG) issued a report detailing cybersecurity incidents at NASA&#8217;s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), which includes insight into how a Raspberry Pi was used to hack into NASA&#8217;s system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341028,"featured_media":284974,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[9639,761,8043],"class_list":["post-310925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-hacked","tag-nasa","tag-raspberry-pi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310925"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341028"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}