NASA servers exposed to major security risks

NASA's security chief today declared that there were major security risks in the computer servers in the United States, and that outlaws could launch an attack entirely via the Internet. "We found a high risk gap in the mission network across the entire NASA organization, which was exposed before the Internet attack, especially the six control spacecraft," NASA watchdog Paul Martin said at a NASA cyber security review today. Computer servers containing sensitive data have remote attack vulnerabilities that remote attackers can control or make unusable. "The report further points out that if someone penetrates into NASA's computer network, they can use these computers as a springboard to further exploit other flaws and" severely disrupt and even paralyse the overall operation of NASA. " The survey found that the encryption keys, encrypted passwords, and user account information for the NASA Web server were exposed to the attack, and that "the data are sensitive enough to allow attackers to gain unauthorized access to the NASA network". Paul Martin reminded everyone that there had been a security incident in May 2009. At that time, a computer system supporting the NASA mission network was invaded, and more than 3,000 unauthorized connections were made to the United States, including China, the Netherlands, Saudi Arabia, Estonia and so on, using flawed security configuration. In January 2009, as much as 22GB of internal data on the computer system of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory was attacked and stolen.