by admin | Nov 4, 2024 | Space Crime
Marc Feldman and Hugh Taylor, authors of “Space Piracy: Preparing for a Criminal Crisis in Orbit,” were recently featured on the Underworld podcast. Underworld is a podcast about organized crime around the world, written and hosted by Danny Gold and Sean...
by admin | Nov 1, 2024 | Curated Articles We Think You Should Read
Our friend and advisor has published a fascinating and prescient article on an important issue in space cybersecurity. The ICARUS matrix is designed to unlock a range of possible cyber scenarios to plan for threats. October 30th, 2024 by Patrick Lin In our recent...
by admin | Oct 21, 2024 | Finance/Risk Management
Money laundering is a criminal activity that is likely to find space to be virgin terrain, ripe for exploitation. As with nearly everything else we’ve discussed so far, this is a guess, but it’s probably a correct one. According to the UN, between 2% and 5% of the...
by admin | Oct 9, 2024 | Curated Articles We Think You Should Read
By Audrey Decker October 9, 2024 01:16 PM ET The space industry is waiting for the Space Force and intelligence community to come to an agreement over buying commercial satellite imagery and related analysis—a fight, some say, that is preventing troops from making the...
by admin | Oct 9, 2024 | Curated Articles We Think You Should Read
By Bill Toulas A previously unknown Chinese hacking group known as ‘Space Pirates’ targets enterprises in the Russian aerospace industry with phishing emails to install novel malware on their systems. The threat group is believed to have started operating...
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....
