Between 2009 and 2011, there are 48 mobile systems be lost or stolen with NASA, which completed. n codes contained to the International Space Station to control, according to a research in which many security issues have come to light.
NASA is dealing with a lot of virus and hack attacks, according to research by the inspection of the space institute. As reported by NASA in 2010 and 2011 5408 security incidents, involving malicious software that is installed or unauthorized access to systems. NASA has 550 major system groups with “information that criminals would like to get your hands on,” said NASA inspector Paul K. Martin against the U.s. Congress.
Nevertheless, it is not in the best of health with the security policy, is evident from the research. So it is only 1 percent of the laptops and portable devices of the organization encrypted, 24 percent of the computers checked for the presence of critical software patches, and 62 percent watched on technical vulnerabilities.
The loss of the unencrypted laptop with codes to the ISS to operate is just one of the examples of the consequences of the poor policy. Also was the network of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, penetrated with a research on a Chinese ip address was released. The burglary was only discovered late and the hackers have full control over the systems. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory is responsible for the Deep Space Network, which is used for the co-ordination of missions.