NASA stolen laptops with control codes of the International Space Station

At NASA, 5408 computer security problems occurred during the two years from 2010 to 2011. Even so, it was quite a problem, but in March 2011 it was revealed that the notebook PC was lost, and this PC contained the control code for the command and control of the International Space Station (ISS).

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This is what NASA's inspector Paul Martin testified in Parliament. To NASA's system, it is said that hacking is being done at all times by individuals who wish to try out, criminal groups that move for profit, foreign information stations that are active for their own countries, etc. By doing so, the number of machines affected is up to thousands, and NASA spends seven million dollars (about 568 million yen) as a countermeasure.

However, Mr. Martin notes that NASA's consciousness to the entire IT asset is low in the first place, so improvement is necessary. The security problem is not limited to hacking, but from April 2009 to April 2011, 48 laptops have been stolen, including secret data including personal information etc There was also one.

Among laptop PCs stolen in March 2011, some of the algorithms used for command and control of the ISS were in an unencrypted state, and otherssocial security numberAnd "Constellation plan"Orion plan"There seems to be some machines containing confidential information on the matter.

Regarding these pieces of information, NASA does not investigate what kind of information has been exposed to the information from the information backed up, and relies on independent reporting by individual employees who owned notebook PCs Therefore, we are in a situation where we can not know how much data leaked out. In the future, the inspector reported that the risk of theft of notebook PCs and handheld devices remains high until NASA finishes building an organization-wide data encryption solution. By the way, NASA is now increasing security.

The security problem of NASA is not what began now, but in 2010Selling confidential information entered PC without erasing dataIn addition, in December 2011 Martin Inspector alsoMore than 500 lending samples such as moon rock and meteorite are missingIt has been reported that.