Hacker Exposes NASA Security Hole

Note: A Goddard Space Flight Center FTP server was breached by a Romanian whitehat hacker known as TinKode, who cracked a European Space Agency network a month ago.

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Slideshow: NASA, Microsoft Reveal Mars In PicturesA Romanian hacker exposed a security flaw in the servers of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, posting proof of his intrusion online.

The hacker--who goes by the online name of TinKode--this week posted on his website a screenshot of the index of a directory from an FTP network at NASA facility in Maryland.