NASA Hacked!!! AnonSec tried to crash $222 million dollar Drone into Pacific ocean.

[frogboy]

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https://thehackernews.com/2016/02/nasa-hacked-drone.html

Once again the Red Alarm had been long wailed in the Security Desk of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Yes! This time, a serious hacktivism had been triggered by the Hacking group named "AnonSec" who made their presence in the cyber universe by previous NASA Hacks.
The AnonSec Members had allegedly released 276 GB of sensitive data which includes 631 video feeds from the Aircraft & Weather Radars; 2,143 Flight Logs and credentials of 2,414 NASA employees, including e-mail addresses and contact numbers.



The hacking group has released a self-published paper named "Zine" that explains the magnitude of the major network breach that compromised NASA systems and their motives behind the leak.

Full article. NASA HACKED! AnonSec tried to Crash $222 Million Drone into Pacific Ocean

 

[Rishi]

Imagine a scientist as NASA is viewing some top secret remote sensing data on a hi-tech monitor and making copious notes , suddenly the screen goes blank...... anonymoz face pops up on the screen and says " wipe our base off your maps or we wipe your hard disks"

 

[DracusNarcrym]

It is obvious that in order to penetrate the infrastructure of a government organization housing top secret data, you need to be focused on the task and put effort into it continuously.
It remains (mostly) unspecified what the group intends to achieve with these acts... Do they believe that NASA is corrupt or should be terminated as an agency? Do they want sensitive data made available to the public? Or do they simply wish to show off?

Surely there is a motive and a purpose behind such intricate attacks.

 

[frogboy]

It is obvious that in order to penetrate the infrastructure of a government organization housing top secret data, you need to be focused on the task and put effort into it continuously.
It remains (mostly) unspecified what the group intends to achieve with these acts... Do they believe that NASA is corrupt or should be terminated as an agency? Do they want sensitive data made available to the public? Or do they simply wish to show off?

Surely there is a motive and a purpose behind such intricate attacks.

I guess there must be as it would not be easy to do.

 

[Atlas147]

Hmmm don't really get the purpose of this hack, basically just an annoyance? Since no ransom was asked by the hackers and the data was technically not used in a malicious way. Could be seen as a good thing, now NASA knows the weak points of it's networks and can better protect them.

Edit: alright so it was kinda malicious when they tried to crash the drone into the ocean... But still the true purpose of the hack remains unknown?

 

[Rishi]

Motives from Zine(sic) ~

0x07 - Epilogue

People might find this lack of security surprising but its pretty standard from our experience.
Once you get past the main lines of defence, its pretty much smooth sailing propagating through a network
as long as you can maintain access. Too many corporations and governments focus 99% on preventing intruders
instead of having viable solutions once there is a security breach, which is guaranteed to happen.

We would also like to address misconceptions about OpNasaDrones from previous articles. When a member whos
main language is Japanese talks to a reporter who's main language is Punjabi, there is bound to be some miscommunication.
Especially when he misunderstood what the .zip we gave him was. It was more or less 90% public information about
Chemtrail/Geoengineering/CloudSeeding/WeatherModification for him to educate himself better on the topic, you know
since most people think its not real. Only a few files, screenshots and videos were actually part of the leak.
Also the part in the OpNasaDrones about Aliens was misinterpretation using Google Translate. What d3f4ult meant to
say was while doing background research into NASA coverups he found out about supposed accounts of UFOs and
aliens working with the government via Gary McKinnons hack. We didnt find anything related to aliens ourselves
as the video made it sounds like, sorry

Also people tend to forget that we have real lives outside of hacking. Which include working, paying bills, taking
care of family/kids, travelling, etc... its not like AnonSec pays a monthly wage lol Since Wikileaks and The Guardian
never responded to our initial leaks, we had to delay releasing. During this delay we collected an additional +150gb
of Drone logs, totalling +250gbs. To view the video logs you will need to change the files format, however for the data
logs you can just open in any text/hex editor since its only text. As for the video logs, go to their directory via
the terminal and run the following command:

find . -name '*.*' | gawk 'BEGIN{ a=1 }{ printf "mv \"%s\" %04d.mp4\n", $0, a++ }' | bash

 

[jamescv7]

Honestly I cannot see the reason of hacking despite of proving the weak passwords and mediocre security enhancements.

Because those hackers mentioned about the Cloud Seeding and Geoengineering are purely concept of Earth Science that helps to balance those bad elements in the ecosystem. Their logic become illogical.

 

[Rishi]

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