Widespread neglect puts NASA’s networks in jeopardy

The most heralded federal agency is in serious risk of a major cyber attack and no one seems to care.

Not NASA executives. Not the contractor hired to protect its end-user devices. And especially not the everyday employees who send rockets into space.

Internal documents obtained by Federal News Radio indicate NASA has anywhere from hundreds of thousands to millions of out-of-date patches at every center across the country.

Security Scorecard, a cybersecurity company, found as many as 10,000 pings coming directly from NASA’s network to known malware hosts, some lasting weeks, if not months.

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