Viasat and the terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. A year ago, fresh off a layoff, I never would have guessed I'd be spending Halloween weekend bouncing between conversations about space policy, satellite hacking, and wedding plans. That's exactly what happened when my space analyst...

Elber ESE DVB-S/S2 Satellite Receiver 1.5.x - Device Config

Elber ESE DVB-S/S2 Satellite Receiver 1.5.x Device Config Vendor: Elber S.r.l. Product web page: https://www.elber.it Affected version: 1.5.179 Revision 904 1.5.56 Revision 884 1.229 Revision 440 Summary: ESE Elber Satellite Equipment product line, designed for the high-end radio contribution and...

Hackers Plan Satellite Network to Fight Internet Censorship

A group of hackers are reportedly declaring war on Internet censorship, and they plan to fight back with their own satellite communications network. Sound like science fiction? According to BBC News, the plan was recently outlined at the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin. Dubbed the...

Facebook Owned 42% of Egyptian Web Traffic Before Blackout

How important a role did Facebook play in the popular revolution that swept Egypt last week? According to data from security firm zScaler: it was very important. Fully 42% of the country’s Web surfing on January 27, the day before Egypt’s main ISPs abruptly severed ties to the Internet. Activity ...