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Originally Posted by zing
did you lot know there were 1100+ successful hack attacks either accessing code or injecting malware on NASA last year? I bet they thought they were secure too lol
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I'd bet like in most organisations 99% of those are down to NASA employees running malware that they either received in email or from a website.
Gary Mckinnon is also no hacker, he just stumbled on a load of NASA machines that had zero protection and used very basic tools to get onto them. It wasn't some huge security breach because there was no security protecting the machines, all it took was a port scan of NASA's IP range and basic windows networking tools to gain access. If they thought they were secure then they didn't have much of a clue over how their systems were setup as there was no security on them at all, workstations with public IPs and no firewalls are asking for trouble.
Actual hacks that aren't down to user stupidity are extremely rare, and rely on vulnerabilities being found that can be exploited.
You can't find a vulnerability without being able to run the code, which is why to hack a smart card you need to pull it apart layer by layer and examine it with an electron microscope to reverse engineer what the card does and extract the data.
N3 is not going to be hacked by some random people without access to some very sophisticated equipment.
That's not to say it can't be hacked, it probably can be, the more complex something is the more chance it can be hacked, but will it be done by some bloke from Middlesbrough who posts on a forum about stealing cable? Not a chance in hell.