by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Dec 15, 2024 | Space Piracy
Thinking about piracy in space means building scenarios and then subjecting them to reality checks. It helps to go for extremes and come up with outlandish ideas. You can always bring them back down to earth, so to speak. In our exploration of the potential for space...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Sep 19, 2024 | Cybersecurity, Space Piracy
The simultaneous explosions of thousands of pagers belonging to Hezbollah operatives in Lebanon offers a great example of a stealth supply chain attack that few could have ever predicted. It’s a reminder that a determined adversary can be extremely imaginative in...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Jul 16, 2024 | Cybersecurity, Military, Space Industry
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman In April of this year, the United States Space Force (USSF) released its Commercial Space Strategy. The strategy, announced with the intention of “accelerating the purposeful pursuit of hybrid space architectures,” seeks to create...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Jul 8, 2024 | Cybersecurity, Space Industry
(This article originally appear in the Journal of Cyber Policy) Last year’s DEF CON event featured a demonstration of satellite hacking. In the Hack-a-Sat contest, which was organized by the US Air Force, teams of hackers were able to penetrate a cubesat called...
by Hugh Taylor and Marc Feldman | Jun 23, 2024 | Law Enforcement, Space Piracy
We often hear pushback about the potential for space piracy along the lines of “the barriers to entry are still high” or “space is too expensive for pirates.” This is true if you think that pirates can only get into space by building and launching their own rockets....
