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by rco8786 2743 days ago
Everyone has legacy software. NASA has legacy software. But legacy isn’t an excuse to leave it unsecured or unmanaged.
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Maybe that's how Veeger was created. The Voyager software was clearly not kept up to date with the vendor's critical updates. When the satellite was found, the alien hackers laughed out how out of date it was, and how an old 0-day could still be used. The hardest part was to decide to make it into a bot in an botnet used for intergalactic DDoS attacks.