NASA takes astrophysics archive site offline for security upgrades

NASA said on 27 October that the HEASARC high-energy astrophysics archive website was temporarily offline while it carries out upgrades addressing PHP security vulnerabilities. The agency did not identify specific vulnerabilities or provide a restoration date.

During the work, researchers can use HEASARC’s AWS open data repository and the HARK command-line toolkit. NASA said it would issue a further notice when the website returns. Its announcement does not report a data breach or say other agency sites were affected.

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