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Report: Flimsy Cybersecurity For US Military Is 'Magnet To US Opponents' -- Christian Science Monitor
A Pentagon study of cybervulnerabilities found that during war-game exercises, some adversaries were able to hack into US military networks with 'relative ease.' The study urges refocused intelligence work and improved cyberdefense.
The US military “cannot be confident” that its computer networks will continue to work in the event of a cyberattack from a reasonably competent enemy.
What’s more, the US military’s “dependence” on flimsy security systems “is a magnet to US opponents,” who are increasingly capable of attacking “with potential consequences similar in some ways to the nuclear threat of the Cold War.”
That’s the warning out of a new 18-month study from the Pentagon’s Defense Science Board, which formed a task force to review the vulnerability of US military networks.
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