{"id":155624,"date":"2023-01-17T06:22:32","date_gmt":"2023-01-17T12:22:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/hackers-took-over-a-commercial-satellite-to-broadcast-hacker-movies"},"modified":"2023-01-17T06:22:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-17T12:22:32","slug":"hackers-took-over-a-commercial-satellite-to-broadcast-hacker-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/01\/hackers-took-over-a-commercial-satellite-to-broadcast-hacker-movies","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Took Over a Commercial Satellite to Broadcast Hacker Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-took-over-a-commercial-satellite-to-broadcast-hacker-movies3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A group of hackers was able to take control of a decommissioned satellite and use it to stream a hacking conference\u2019s talks and hacker movies.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, at the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas, Karl Koscher, one of the members of a hacking enthusiasts group called Shadytel, explained how he and his friends were able to legally stream from a satellite in geostationary orbit\u201435,786 km or 22,236 miles from the surface of the planet.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The satellite had been decommissioned and was about to be sent to the so-called \u201cgraveyard orbit,\u201d a far-away orbit where satellites go to die.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of hackers was able to take control of a decommissioned satellite and use it to stream a hacking conference\u2019s talks and hacker movies. On Saturday, at the DEF CON hacking conference in Las Vegas, Karl Koscher, one of the members of a hacking enthusiasts group called Shadytel, explained how he and his friends [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-155624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155624","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\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=155624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}