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Tales from DEF CON 33: Starpwn CTF 2025

Corporate, Cybersecurity, SpaceSeptember 8, 2025803ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

Visionspace is proud to be part of the great team contributing to Starpwn CTF 2025, a space-focused CTF hosted by the Aerospace Village during DEF CON 33. We wanted to come up with challenges for all skill levels but ultimately provide a realistic challenge for all teams. This would require players to dive deep into…

Satellites Forecasting Fires: A Global Perspective as Summer Peaks

Cybersecurity, Social, Space, TechnologyAugust 5, 2025819ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

Southern Europe is on fire, quite literally. As of early August, large-scale wildfires are tearing through Portugal, Greece, and Turkey, with extreme heat and wind accelerating their spread. In Portugal, tens of thousands of hectares have already burned this season across Castelo Branco and Portalegre, where fire crews are now stretched thin. In Greece, blazes…

When Space Gives You 1.5TB of Galaxies, What Comes Next?

Cybersecurity, Social, SpaceJuly 16, 2025632ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

This past June, something remarkable happened. The COSMOS-Web team released 1.5 terabytes of processed data from the James Webb Space Telescope: the most detailed map of the early universe humanity has ever seen. With it came over 800,000 galaxies, spanning 13.5 billion years of cosmic history. And, for once, the barrier to entry wasn’t a…

Europe’s Space Ambitions Depend on One Thing: Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity, Defense, SpaceJuly 10, 2025646ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

When the EU Space Act landed in June 2025, it didn’t just outline regulations. It sent a clear message: European space systems must be secure, resilient, and self-reliant. Cybersecurity, once treated as a separate add-on, is now baked into the mission architecture, and that's long overdue. The Act isn’t light reading. It's a dense, policy-heavy…

E2EQSS: Building Resilient Infrastructure for the Quantum Era

Brand, Space, TechnologyJune 26, 2025662ViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

Quantum computing no longer belongs to the realm of theoretical physics. Its real-world implications are approaching, and with them, the potential collapse of current encryption standards. In response, the European Union has launched its Coordinated Implementation Roadmap for Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC), preparing a continent-wide transition to quantum-resilient security systems. This is not just a precaution,…

OpenC3 Cosmos 6.0.0: A Security Assessment of an Open-Source Mission Framework

Advisories, Cybersecurity, Space, TechnologyApril 16, 20251KViewsShareTwitter FacebookEmailLink

Written by: Andrzej Olchawa, Ricardo Fradique, Milenko Starcik OpenC3 Cosmos is an open-source command and control software suite designed to support space mission operations. Despite its modularity and widespread adoption across the industry, a recent security assessment of version 6.0.0 uncovered several critical vulnerabilities that could compromise mission-critical systems' confidentiality, integrity, and availability. …