SolarWinds hack 'a big wakeup call,' NASA's human spaceflight chief says

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NASA knows that it's an inviting target for hackers and therefore takes significant measures to head off attacks. But still it was compromised last year, and that shook that agency up.

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[sam85geo]

A line from the novel "The Godfather" jumps to mind. "A man with a brief case can steal more than ten men with guns". Now it seems that criminals, countries and "clowns" have obviated the need for brief cases and guns. The wholesale theft of intellectual property, propriety data and scientific research has given a "dark side" to computer science as a new level of criminality.