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Tabletop exercises are headed to the next frontier: Space

Summary: The U.S. National Science Foundation released a study produced with California Polytechnic State University researchers outlining possible space-based cyberattack scenarios, including a hypothetical distributed denial-of-service attack that disables electronic door controls on a lunar settlement. The researchers said they hope such scenarios encourage private companies and the U.S. government to weigh the security needs of space activities, including running tabletop simulation or wargaming exercises, with some scenarios stated as unlikely for at least 20 or more years and others possible within five.

What you should know: The same Talos roundup notes that MFA-related issues figured in nearly half of the incidents its team responded to in the first quarter of 2024, with 25% of engagements caused by users accepting fraudulent push notifications and 21% by poor MFA implementation - a more immediate exposure than a lunar colony's door controls.

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