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Iranian Hackers Claim They Compromised NASA SSL Digital Certificate
From: InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>
Date: Tue, 22 May 2012 01:38:37 -0500 (CDT)
http://www.darkreading.com/security-monitoring/167901086/security/attacks-breaches/240000784/iranian-hackers-claim-they-compromised-nasa-ssl-digital-certificate.html By Kelly Jackson Higgins Dark Reading May 21, 2012A self-professed Iranian hacker gang announced in an online post that it compromised an SSL certificate belonging to NASA and subsequently accessed information on "thousands" of NASA researchers.
Word of the alleged hack by the Iranian Cyber Warriors Team was first reported last week by SecurityWeek, which said NASA confirmed that its security office was "investigating the claim."
A NASA spokesperson had not responded as of this posting to a press inquiry by Dark Reading on the status of the investigation.
But security experts say the hackers' claims could well be true. "[It is] absolutely possible. It was an Iranian hacker who took down DigiNotar last August. And NASA has received lots of negative GAO comments on [its] cyber" security, says Jeffrey Carr, CEO of Taia Global.
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