NASA lost the computer containing the ISS control code

In the laptop of the US Aeronautics Agency (NASA) last year contained instructions for controlling the International Space Center (ISS), NASA's inspector general has just revealed.

Reported to Congress about the security challenges that NASA is facing, Paul Martin said, the lost laptop is one of 48 mobile computing devices belonging to NASA that have been lost or beaten. stolen in the period from April 2009 to April 2011.

'In March 2011, the theft of NASA's encrypted laptop resulted in the loss of algorithms used to control the International Space Station. Other lost computers contain sensitive data about the Constellation programs and Orion spacecraft. Furthermore, NASA cannot consistently measure the amount of sensitive data exposed when employees 'computers are lost or stolen because of their employees' reliance on their own data reports. lost, instead of identifying the data stored in those devices by reviewing backup files , "said Paul Martin.

Algorithms for controlling ISS have fallen into the hands of outsiders.

According to Martin, NASA encountered 5,408 incidents involving computer security between 2010 and 2011, including spyware installations or those without unauthorized access to the system.

'Qualified hackers can cause considerable disruption to NASA's work, because IT networks are the hub of all NASA operations.'

Since 1970, more than 500 pieces of space rocks, meteorites, fragments from NASA and other space objects have been missing or stolen.