{"id":170876,"date":"2023-08-29T23:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/hackers-shut-down-2-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-telescopes"},"modified":"2023-08-29T23:23:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-30T04:23:57","slug":"hackers-shut-down-2-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-telescopes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/hackers-shut-down-2-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-telescopes","title":{"rendered":"Hackers shut down 2 of the world\u2019s most advanced telescopes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/hackers-shut-down-2-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-telescopes3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the world\u2019s leading astronomical observatories have reported cyberattacks that have resulted in temporary shutdowns.<\/p>\n<p>The National Science Foundation\u2019s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, or NOIRLab, reported that a cybersecurity incident that occurred on Aug. 1 has prompted the lab to temporarily halt operations at its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/colliding-galaxies-butterfly-image\">Gemini North Telescope<\/a> in Hawaii and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/14294-gemini-telescope-adaptive-optics-stars.html\">Gemini South Telescope<\/a> in Chile. Other, smaller telescopes on Cerro Tololo in Chile were also affected.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the world\u2019s leading astronomical observatories have reported cyberattacks that have resulted in temporary shutdowns. The National Science Foundation\u2019s National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Laboratory, or NOIRLab, reported that a cybersecurity incident that occurred on Aug. 1 has prompted the lab to temporarily halt operations at its Gemini North Telescope in Hawaii and Gemini South [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-170876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170876","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=170876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}