A new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), has published on October 9, 2018.
According to the report, the weapons systems being developed by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) area unit are prone to cyber attacks.
The Defense department appeared ignorant of the threats. Even if tests conducted by the Defense Department itself have found such security vulnerabilities. Using comparatively simple tools and techniques, testers were able to hack the systems.
In fact, one tester took only 9 seconds to break the administrator’s password. Weapons systems hold out their functions depending on the software. The weapons also are connected to the web and another weapon. These advances conjointly build them “more prone to cyber-attacks,” the U.S. Government Accountability Office aforementioned.
Any a part of a weapons system that is driven by software can be hacked. Though the Defense Department has begun to create enhancements in cybersecurity over the past few years, the U.S. Government Accountability Office aforementioned, it faces many challenges, one in all that is that the lack of information-sharing across programs. In addition, the Defense system having a tricky time hiring and holding cybersecurity consultants.
