SPECIAL Everyone likes a good E -mail storm. However, an insecure E -Post distribution list, the accident on the planet spam space agencies undoubtedly for record books.
Someone tells Doge to prepare anyone who protects this e -mail list
NASAs Materials and Processes Technical Information System (MAPTIS) It is an invaluable resource for anyone who wants to put a burden on space. For many agencies, checking the materials used according to MAPTIS content is part of the competence procedure.
Maptis is used by space agencies worldwide. Users also include academy and commercial space providers.
Suppose you want to know how the selected materials behave in space. The data will probably be in Maptis. Physical and structural features? Maptis again. How to configure an E -mail distribution list? Oh, now this is not something Maptis knows, as it is proved by an unfortunate event recently.
Like Reg Readers are a number of E -Post addresses where a message can be sent, such as an E -Post distribution list, such as a communication group. They are usually controlled and fixed to prevent unauthorized access.
According to a space agency source, a user accidentally managed to send messages to the MAPTIS insecure E -Posta distribution list and the result … was not good.
“When he understands,” his source explained, “Spam threw everyone in almost every space agency working on flight qualities – half of the planet was responding to everyone who wanted to be removed from the list.
The incident could have been almost a space age version. Record‘S Who, me? Technical Mishaps Column.
“The funny part said, ‘Someone tells Doge to prepare anyone who protects this E -mail list.’
Dogge is now a department of government efficiency by billionaire Elon Musk to eliminate waste and unnecessary functions from US administration.
Recently, Doge hired employees from the Cyber Security and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the US government later, but we are sure that an excessive application of welding scalpel has nothing to do with Maptis E -Posta Whoopsie.
Record He asked NASA to give details about the maintenance of E -Posta distribution lists. The US Space Agency has not yet answered. ®
