{"id":179,"date":"2020-06-15T12:49:23","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T12:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/?p=179"},"modified":"2020-06-26T12:49:54","modified_gmt":"2020-06-26T12:49:54","slug":"nasa-hit-by-366-rise-in-cybersecurity-incidents-after-budget-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/nasa-hit-by-366-rise-in-cybersecurity-incidents-after-budget-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA Hit By 366% Rise In Cybersecurity Incidents After Budget Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity incidents at NASA rose by 366% last year, according to data collected by virtual network provider AtlasVPN. From a total of 315 in 2018, they rose to 1,469 in 2019, at a time when NASA\u2019s cybersecurity budget declined by $3.1 million over the same period.<\/p>\n<p>Publishing its results today, AtlasVPN extracted and analysed NASA cybersecurity incident data for 2018 and 2019, sourced from the Office of Management and Budget. Of the 366% increase the VPN provider uncovered, it found that incidents related to &#8220;improper usage&#8221; and lax security practices accounted for 90.5% of the 1,468 increase.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s most alarming about AtlasVPN\u2019s findings is not that NASA is one of the United States\u2019 most important federal agencies. Rather, the increase follows a reduction in NASA\u2019s cybersecurity budget across 2019, when the vast majority of major federal agencies saw their corresponding security budgets increase.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed-base image-embed embed-0\" role=\"presentation\">\n<div>\n<p>Given that\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/10\/us\/politics\/coronavirus-china-cyber-hacking.html\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/10\/us\/politics\/coronavirus-china-cyber-hacking.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/05\/10\/us\/politics\/coronavirus-china-cyber-hacking.html\" aria-label=\"foreign states are reportedly trying to attack U.S. agencies\">foreign states are reportedly trying to attack U.S. agencies<\/a>, the news that NASA has witnessed increased cyber incidents at a time of reduced budget should ring alarm bells. A\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-16\/u-s-health-agency-suffers-cyber-attack-during-covid-19-response\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-16\/u-s-health-agency-suffers-cyber-attack-during-covid-19-response\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2020-03-16\/u-s-health-agency-suffers-cyber-attack-during-covid-19-response\" aria-label=\"cyber-attack in March targeted the Department of Health and Human Service\">cyber-attack in March targeted the Department of Health and Human Service<\/a>, bombarding its servers with millions of hits, which slowed its system down for several hours.<\/p>\n<p>Another alarming feature of NASA\u2019s cyber-incident data for 2019 is that the vast bulk of incidents relate to &#8220;improper usage.&#8221; As\u00a0<a class=\"color-link\" title=\"https:\/\/atlasvpn.com\/blog\/cyber-incidents-at-nasa-surged-by-366\" href=\"https:\/\/atlasvpn.com\/blog\/cyber-incidents-at-nasa-surged-by-366\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/atlasvpn.com\/blog\/cyber-incidents-at-nasa-surged-by-366\" aria-label=\"AtlasVPN writes in the report of its findings\">AtlasVPN writes in the report of its findings<\/a>, improper usage is &#8220;any incident resulting from a violation of an organization\u2019s acceptable usage policies by an authorized user.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity incidents at NASA rose by 366% last year, according to data collected by virtual network provider AtlasVPN. From a total of 315 in 2018, they rose to 1,469 in 2019, at a time when NASA\u2019s cybersecurity budget declined by $3.1 million over the same period. Publishing its results today, AtlasVPN extracted and analysed NASA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>NASA Hit By 366% Rise In Cybersecurity Incidents After Budget Cuts - Community<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tsfactory.com\/forums\/blog\/nasa-hit-by-366-rise-in-cybersecurity-incidents-after-budget-cuts\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NASA Hit By 366% Rise In Cybersecurity Incidents After Budget Cuts - Community\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Cybersecurity incidents at NASA rose by 366% last year, according to data collected by virtual network provider AtlasVPN. 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