air force, the U.S. announced a national competition for hackers. The task is to hack the satellite in orbit and to extract from him all the information. An additional task on the “five plus” – to take control of the satellite under his control. According to us media reports, the first phase of the fight of hackers to be held in may, final in August.
the Organizers believe: IT specialists in this contest will check in the information security system of the US to the hacking, but at the same time’ll practice in the interception constitute a threat to the States of objects. However, experts are confident only by satellites and aircraft of the United States is not limited. “MK” asked the expert on far-reaching digital plans of the Americans.
you need – idea for the Pentagon is not new. In 2016 the US defense Department has arranged competition “Hack the Pentagon”. For a decent prize pool in the tens of thousands of dollars to young pros were asked to bypass the security system of the main military Department of the United States.
happened. Young got a large sum of cash and the security of the Pentagon revealed a few weaknesses. They were immediately “fixed”.
In 2019 at the mercy of the IT specialists provided real combat the F-15. It’s also no problem – it was quickly opened, reformatted and prepared for battle.
Now, the hackers task a little more difficult to hack the satellite in orbit, plus take control. But a little more than a prize – the winner gets 50 thousand dollars, the silver prize-winner – 30 thousand. For the bronze promise 20 thousand.
by the Way, to the current hacking competition under the name “Hack-A-Sat” allowed not only programmers, but also engineers. Now they are preparing for the qualifying stage. The final will be held in August in the days of large-scale conference on digital security DEF CON.
the Pentagon does not hide – with the help of legal hackers, they not only “feel” digital security of your space, but will look to the future replenishment of the intelligence.
–the United States in recent years, a feeding frenzy for cyber security – said the “MK” military expert Alexei Leonov. And it’s clear why: the us military complain that Russia or China sophisticated and secure information system that need more cyberboys. So they organise a refill in this way.
But the important thing is that, according to the expert, literally pushed us military actively prepare and search for digital intelligence programmers- gun breakthrough in Russia.
Is the appearance of our hypersonic weapon, which was a complete surprise for the Americans – said “MK” Lenkov. – Relying on automation without serious human analysts, they just missed our promising novelty. And now they again want to go back to partially��the “human” work. Analyst in human form accurately would not have missed even microinformation about hypersound. But it does mean that you need to prepare not one analyst-a specialist, not ten. You ought to be ready to accept the huge flow of data – it is necessary to sort, to rank, to separate the unimportant from the important. So you need to rivet the new army digital analysts.
There is another reason why the Pentagon massively need programmers.
– the US is busy creating a giant unified system of command and control – continues Lenkov. And this system needs to combine all razvedchikami – sea, land, space. By the way, Americans now set up to break the contract “the open sky”. So they want to become the de facto monopoly in reconnaissance flights among the countries of the West, especially in space.
the expert Also drew attention to the following fact: the U.S. is preparing to launch satellites that will provide wireless access to the Internet fifth generation 5G. Lenkov emphasizes, on the one hand it’s good business: high speed Internet access for all directly from satellites. So fast that wired can be waived. But as says the expert, “under the sauce”, the US will be able to subordinate all systems of control over the Internet space. And all information will flock to the United States.
– There are indications that the Pentagon is creating a whole division. They will work with the 5G network. Now you know why? says Lenkov. These units of the American “hawks” will be implemented in all types of troops. Thus will be created a single global system of control and intelligence. And competitors in the form of Russian and Chinese satellites they don’t need. Therefore, the United States will endeavour, if not to destroy our satellites, as a minimum, to infiltrate their “brains” and management.
the Expert is sure: all these hacking competitions, Championships and challenges needed to bring out the best of the best. So the Pentagon is planning to grow an army of cyber-spies of the new generation, what they like to display in Hollywood hits a La “Terminator”.
