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About CSCP&G.
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The Center for Study of Space Crime, Piracy, and Governance (CSCP&G) is an independent, nonpartisan think tank whose purpose is to serve as a policy resource for government officials and business executives on issues related to space governance, sovereignty, commerce, law, crime, and piracy. CSCP&G seeks to serve as an actionable resource for government officials, and space industry players. The center’s objective is to prevent and combat space crime/piracy, enhancing space governance, space sovereignty, and commerce.
Latest Articles
Marc Feldman and Hugh Taylor Featured on Underworld Podcast
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 Williams, and...
From ViaSatellite: Why Space Cybersecurity Needs More Imagination
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...
Money Laundering in Space: The Next Criminal Frontier
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...
From DefenseOne.com: Industry ‘hamstrung’ by Space Force-intel community’s turf war
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...
From BleepingComputer.com: Chinese ‘Space Pirates’ are hacking Russian aerospace firms
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 in 2017, and...
Fighting Future Space Crime with Inspiration from the Quantum Threat
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...
Thinking Through Unanticipated Risks in the USSF Commercial Space Strategy
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...
Hacking a Satellite: Harder Than It Looks?
(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...
Think Space is Too Expensive for Pirates?
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....