A self-professed Iranian hacker gang announced in an online post that it compromised an SSL certificate belonging to NASA and accessed information on “thousands” of NASA researchers. Security experts say the hackers’ claims could well be true. NASA has received lots of negative GAO comments on its cyber” security, says CEO of Taia Global. NASA, meanwhile, has been under scrutiny after an Inspector General report revealed that the agency suffered nearly 5,500 security incidents between 2010 and 2011, including financially motivated and cyberespionage-type attacks.”]

