Report: New U.S. Weapon Systems Can Be Easily Hacked

AFP: New Pentagon weapons systems easily hacked: report

Washington (AFP) - New US weapons systems being developed by the US Department of Defense can be easily be hacked by adversaries, a new government report said on Tuesday.

The Government Accountability Office said the Pentagon was unaware of how easy it could be for an adversary to gain access to the computer brains and software of the weapons systems and operate inside them undetected.

The weak points began with poor password management and unencrypted communications, it said.

But it said access points for the systems continued to grow in number and are not always well-understood by the operators themselves, leaving even non-networked systems deeply vulnerable.

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Update #1: Government watchdog says US weapons systems are vulnerable to hacks, but the Pentagon is slow to act (TechCrunch)
Update #2: Report: It’s Easy to Hack an Entire Generation of Military Weapons (Futurism)

WNU Editor: The GAO report is here .... DOD Just Beginning to Grapple with Scale of Vulnerabilities.