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NASA hacked by Iranian students

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Iranian Hackers Claim They Compromised NASA SSL Digital Certificate There's still no official response from NASA officials after a group of Iranian student programmers calling themselves Cyber Warriors Team claimed to have swiped records for thousands of NASA researchers by compromising an agency site's SSL certificate. In a May 16  statement posted on Pastebin , the group claimed (in poorly constructed English) to have exploited a vulnerability in a login system to gain administrative rights. "Our main work and we target Is in use. Our target was not Internet sabotage. Our Target was Do ‘MAN IN THE MIDDLE’ attack (with using Confirmation obtained) and also Clear the track after each connection in the network For Hide and Disclosing my presence in Two-way communication between. But the problem still exists And its use isn't Hard For We (CW.T)." NASA has come under federal scrutiny since admitting earlier this year that it's suffered more than 5,400 cy...