Cyber Tests Showed 'Nearly All' New Pentagon Weapons Vulnerable To Attack, GAO Says
"One test report indicated that the test team was able to guess an administrator password in nine seconds," the Government Accountability Office says.
by Bill Chappell
Oct 09, 2018
3 minutes
Passwords that took seconds to guess, or were never changed from their factory settings. Cyber vulnerabilities that were known, but never fixed. Those are two common problems plaguing some of the Department of Defense's newest weapons systems, according to the Government Accountability Office.
The flaws are highlighted in a new GAO report, which found the Pentagon is "just beginning to grapple" with the scale of vulnerabilities in its weapons systems.
Drawing data from cybersecurity tests conducted on
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