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US Advanced Weaponry Is Easy To Hack, Even By Low-Skilled Attackers – United States
Major weapon systems developed by the US Department of Defense are riddled with vulnerabilities that make them an easy target for adversaries trying to control them or disrupt their functions. As the DoD plans to spend about $1.66 trillion to advance its weapons arsenal, the US Government of Accountability Office (GAO) finds reports from various development stages of the systems showing that mission-critical vulnerabilities are a regular find in “nearly all weapon systems that were under development.” Testing teams charged with probing the resilience to cyber-attacks were able to take control or disable the target using basic tools and techniques. Sometimes, just scanning the system caused parts of it to shut down. GAO says that it found test records about credentials management being so poor that one team was able to guess the admin password of a system in nine seconds. The most likely reason for this was that the administrators did not change the default passwords in the software installed on the weapon system.
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EU Security Chiefs, Sessions Hold Stadium Terrorism Exercise – Lyon, France
European security chiefs struggled over solutions to the migrant crisis and oversaw a simulated terrorist attack on a stadium Tuesday, with U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions looking on. Elite police forces staged the anti-terrorism exercise in the French city of Lyon as part of meetings of interior ministers of six European countries plus Morocco. Sessions didn’t speak publicly at the event. Countering terrorism, including dealing with the return of foreign fighters from Syria and Iraq, was a main topic at the closed-door meetings. The touchy subject of migration, another focus, had officials differing sharply over how best to tackle mass migration given the open internal borders within the European Union. Poland’s interior minister, Joachim Brudzinski, said European countries are coming around to his nation’s view that “migration today, whether it’s legal or illegal, can be a threat to Europe.”
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Defense Supply Chain ‘Alarmingly’ Reliant On Rivals – China and The United States
The Defense Department released an urgent report last Friday outlining how its supply chains are alarmingly reliant on China and other potential military rivals for essential materials. How can the U.S. military properly defend our nation if it can’t source what it needs from domestic sources and instead must depend on potential adversaries for those materials? The simple answer: it can’t. This shouldn’t be surprising, though. The Alliance for American Manufacturing (AAM) has been sounding the alarm on this pressing issue since 2013, when we published a report that identified many of the same weaknesses in our military supply chains and overall defense preparedness. Authored by Brig. Gen. John Adams, U.S. Army (Ret.), ReMaking American Security, found glaring gaps in our military’s ability to source materials that produce everything from steel armor plate and lithium ion batteries to hellfire missile propellant and biological weapons defense important tools that could mean life or death for Americans in combat.
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Read the report here (PDF): http://wvw.g4s.us/l/31052/2018-10-10/g8hsw8
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