
The United States Air Force plans to choose on Dec. 13 which satellite it will offer to a service-selected group of hackers to try to infiltrate at next August's Defcon 2020 conference in Las Vegas, an Air Force official said on Dec. 11. Indeed, hackers are to be part of Air Force efforts to undertake "cyber hygiene" efforts to embed cybersecurity in aviation and space systems, including such systems' vulnerable supply chains that lack secure embedded coding. Will Roper, assistant…