To protect against cyber attacks in space, researchers are asking, “What if?”

If space systems like GPS were hacked and taken offline, much of the world would immediately revert to the communications and navigation technologies of the 1950s. Yet space cybersecurity has remained largely invisible to the public at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions. Cyberattacks on satellites have been happening since the 1980s, but the global … Read more

To protect against cyber attacks in space, researchers are asking, “What if?”

If space systems like GPS were hacked and taken offline, much of the world would immediately revert to the communications and navigation technologies of the 1950s. Yet space cybersecurity has remained largely invisible to the public at a time of heightened geopolitical tensions. Cyberattacks on satellites have been happening since the 1980s, but the global … Read more