If you want to get Elon Musk I pay you 25 thousand dollars, you will need to be an expert in cybersecurity. SpaceXthrough the Internet address of star link offers a reward to those who manage to find security gaps in the satellite Internet service.
It is not a single amount. The company has issued a statement in which it encourages specialists in the area to find any fault in the service. And in this way correct it and make the network of star link practically impenetrable.
There are several security breaches that can be found in a computer network. Some are simple and solvable in a matter of seconds and others more complex.
Depending on the level of what the hacker can crack, the company offers between $97 and 25,000 greenbacks.
SpaceX’s statement regarding this situation is something of a challenge, since it appears after a Belgian cybersecurity researcher managed to hack Starlink through a simple mechanism, according to a review. AS Journal.
Starlink, SpaceX and Elon Musk hacked
Hacking an Elon Musk company is hitting him directly in the ego, since technology and computing are his forte, the reason he has so much money. So, they always have security mechanisms in place to offer optimal services.
In the Las Vegas Black Hat Conferencethe investigator Lennert Woutersof Ku Leuven he violated the security and with it the ego of the richest man in the world.
According to what AS reviews, Wouters ran his own code within the Starlink infrastructure. The most unusual thing is that he did it without the antenna that the company offers for its Internet service.
The expert designed a tool with a personalized plate in which he installed a mechanism that cost no more than 25 dollars. After doing so he showed the whole process at the Las Vegas event.
SpaceX reaction
The company congratulated the expert and it was then that he encouraged other connoisseurs in the area to do the same.
“The attack is technically impressive, and is the first of its kind that we are aware of on our system. We allow responsible security researchers to conduct their own tests and offer monetary rewards when they find and report vulnerabilities.
Since then, some 43 vulnerabilities have been reported in the system. The average reward payout is around a thousand dollars. We do not know if there is any expert who has hit the jackpot.