Nearly Every US Weapons System Has ‘Significant Vulnerabilities’ To Cyber Attacks
ANDREA SHALAL
BusinessInsider.com
Jan. 21, 2014
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Nearly every U.S. weapons program tested in fiscal 2014 showed “significant vulnerabilities” to cyber attacks, including misconfigured, unpatched and outdated software, the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester said in his annual report released Tuesday.
Michael Gilmore, director of operational test and evaluation (DOT&E), said program managers had worked to resolve problems discovered in previous years and security was improving, but this year’s testing had revealed new vulnerabilities.
“Cyber adversaries have become as serious a threat to U.S. military forces as the air, land, sea and undersea threats represented in operational testing for decades,” Gilmore wrote in the 366-page report.
“The continued development of advanced cyber intrusion techniques makes it likely that determined cyber adversaries can acquire a foothold in most (Department of Defense) networks, and could be in a position to degrade important DOD missions when and if they chose to,” he wrote.
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