How to Hack Into Satellites

Malicious Life

Technology

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 December 2023

⏱️ 30 minutes

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About a year ago, six academics from Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security set out to survey engineers and developers on the subject of satellite cybersecurity. But most of these engineers were very reluctant to share any details about their satellites and their security aspects. Why were satellite engineers so reticent to talk about cybersecurity? What was so secretive, so wrong with it, that they didn’t feel they could answer even general questions, anonymously? Because let’s be clear: if there’s something wrong with the security of satellites, that’d be a serious problem.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Levy.
0:01.0	Welcome to Cyber reasons Malicious Life. About a year ago six academics from Ru University Buchm and the Cispa Helmholt Center for Information Security
0:36.7	set out to survey engineers and developers on the subject of satellite cyber security.
0:44.0	In some ways it didn't go so well.
0:48.0	After reaching out throughout the industry, they received a whooping 19 responses representing 17 satellites, though the
0:56.7	respondents had worked on a total of 132 satellites in their careers.
1:02.0	The researchers lamented in their report how, quote,
1:05.7	it should be noted that even with the 19 valid responses we received,
1:10.7	it took about four months to convince people to complete the survey.
1:15.0	In general, we observed that people were very reluctant to share any details about their satellites and their security aspects.
1:25.0	Why were satellite engineers so reticent to talk about cyber security?
1:30.0	What was so secretive, so wrong with it, that they didn't feel they could answer even general questions anonymously?
1:39.0	Because let's be clear, if there's something wrong with the security of satellites, that would be a serious problem.
1:51.0	According to the website orbiting now, as of this recording, there are 8,705 active
1:57.8	satellites orbiting the planet.
2:00.5	They are owned by telecommunications companies, military and defense organizations, even universities.
2:07.0	They're providing internet, television and phone services to millions of people around the globe.
2:13.0	They're enabling scientists to study the climate and emergency responders to more quickly
2:18.4	respond to serious events.
2:20.9	They're providing us with the GPS used in your car or on your flight.
2:25.0	Farmers are using them for their crops and armies for the missile targeting.
2:30.0	They're interwoven into the fabric of daily life in ways that you might not even realize,
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