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I think GP is saying that an attack that impacted the satellites flying around in space is a large claim, on account of their systems have better security. I im

I think GP is saying that an attack that impacted the satellites flying around in space is a large claim, on account of their systems have better security. I imagine the idea of a many millions of $ satellite burning up because someone left a telnet server open is enough to make executives take sat security a little more seriously than say terminal security. Don’t think anyone is really refuting the idea that satellite terminals being remotely bricked en-mass, just as two countries nearby go to war, is an attack.

Nextgrid 5y ago
My argument in my original post was that the fact that this is a satellite network is likely to be completely irrelevant to the actual attack and that the parts that were compromised exist just as well in a terrestrial-based network. However, "satellite network suffers cyber-attack" is a better headline than "local ISP was stupid and got their management network pwned" - the former implies extra complexity which works well for ass-covering and swaying public opinion, something they very much need if it turns out the vulnerability was very stupid & mundane.