Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) under the Ministry of Electronics and IT, in collaboration with the Cyber Security Agency of Singapore, successfully designed and conducted the Cyber Security Exercise "Synergy" for 13 Countries. The Group is led by India under the leadership of the National Security Council Secretariat.
The theme of the exercise was "Building Network Resiliency to counter Ransomware Attacks". The exercise scenario was derived from real-life cyber incidents, in which a domestic level (limited impact) ransomware incident escalates to a global cyber security crisis.
The Exercise "Synergy" was hosted by CERT-In on its exercise simulation platform. Each State participated as a National Crisis Management Team having composition from different government agencies.
NASA Postpones Artemis I Mission to Moon as Team Fails to Fix Fuel Leak Issue
NASA called off the launch attempt for the much-anticipated mission to send a rocket around the moon, marking the second time within a week that engineers decided to scrub the flight due to mechanical issues.
The scratched launch followed a hydrogen leak in the engine cavity, which prevented NASA engineers from fully loading liquid hydrogen into the rocket. The issue will need to be resolved before NASA's Artemis I mission can lift off. A similar leak was one of several issues that contributed to the space agency's decision to postpone an attempt on August 29.
Sep 01, 2022
MAVEN and EMM Orbiters Observe 'Patchy' Proton Aurora on Mars
Even though Mars does not have a global magnetic field like the Earth, it still possesses multiple kinds of aurora. One of these is proton aurora, which is thought to form mainly by an indirect process that allows a small fraction of the solar wind to rain down on the Red Planet uniformly across the dayside. Now, NASA's MAVEN (Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN) mission and UAE's Emirates Mars Mission (EMM) have spotted 'patchy' proton aurora on Mars. This type of aurora is mostly the result of plasma turbulence, which under some circumstances leads to direct deposition of the solar wind across the entire Martian dayside, with a potentially large impact on long term atmosphere and water loss from the planet.
A proton aurora is a type of Martian aurora that forms as the solar wind, made up of charged particles from the Sun, interacts with the planet's upper atmosphere.