The November 3 edition of Olhar Digital News covered a security flaw in São Paulo’s Smart Sampa surveillance system, a major cryptocurrency theft and two developments involving NASA space telescopes.
The Smart Sampa flaw made feeds from 17,000 cameras operated by companies partnered with São Paulo’s city government accessible without a password or security verification. The feeds were exposed for five days, according to the report.
Binance released a report detailing how attackers breached its systems and stole $6.3 billion in cryptocurrency, equivalent to about 34 billion Brazilian reais. The attack took place the previous week and was described in the report as the largest in the sector’s history.
NASA’s Swift space telescope, which has been in orbit for more than 20 years, is losing altitude and approaching Earth. NASA said the roughly 1,450-kilogram spacecraft was expected to reenter the atmosphere at around 5:30 a.m. Brasília time on November 4, with an uncertainty of 11 hours.
NASA has also opened a new consultation round to assess options for servicing the Hubble Space Telescope. The initiative follows the agency’s earlier assessment that commercial proposals it had considered were too risky.
Sources: Olhar Digital.