{"id":144046,"date":"2022-08-15T21:08:35","date_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:08:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/spacex-says-researchers-are-welcome-to-hack-starlink-and-can-be-paid-up-to-25000-for-finding-bugs-in-the-network"},"modified":"2022-08-15T21:08:35","modified_gmt":"2022-08-16T02:08:35","slug":"spacex-says-researchers-are-welcome-to-hack-starlink-and-can-be-paid-up-to-25000-for-finding-bugs-in-the-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/spacex-says-researchers-are-welcome-to-hack-starlink-and-can-be-paid-up-to-25000-for-finding-bugs-in-the-network","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX says researchers are welcome to hack Starlink and can be paid up to $25,000 for finding bugs in the network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-says-researchers-are-welcome-to-hack-starlink-and-can-be-paid-up-to-25000-for-finding-bugs-in-the-network.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX says responsible researchers are welcome to hack into its satellite internet network, Starlink. It added that it could pay them up to $25,000 for discovering certain bugs in the service.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement came after security researcher Lennert Wouters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blackhat.com\/us-22\/briefings\/schedule\/index.html#glitched-on-earth-by-humans-a-black-box-security-evaluation-of-the-spacex-starlink-user-terminal-26982\">said<\/a> last week he was able to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/spacex-starlink-hacked-homemade-device-researcher-2022-8\">hack into Starlink<\/a> using a $25 homemade device. He said he performed the test as part of SpaceX\u2019s bug bounty program, where researchers submit findings of potential vulnerabilities in Starlink\u2019s network.<\/p>\n<p>In a six-page <a href=\"https:\/\/api.starlink.com\/public-files\/StarlinkWelcomesSecurityResearchersBringOnTheBugs.pdf\">document<\/a> entitled \u201cStarlink welcomes security researchers (bring on the bugs),\u201d SpaceX congratulated Wouters on his research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX says responsible researchers are welcome to hack into its satellite internet network, Starlink. It added that it could pay them up to $25,000 for discovering certain bugs in the service. The announcement came after security researcher Lennert Wouters said last week he was able to hack into Starlink using a $25 homemade device. He [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}