Penetration: The Obama era was particularly hard on the U.S. military, as the administration and Congress refused to pass real budgets which prevented the services from investing in high-tech systems, including those designed to protect our most vital assets.
This was again evident after the Department of Defense Inspector General released a report this week saying some of our country’s most important satellites — those the Air Force uses to detect enemy ICBM launches — could be compromised by Russian and Chinese hackers.
As Breaking Defense reports, there isn’t any direct evidence proving that such hacking has taken place, but “If China and Russia’s spies have been doing their jobs well they might well have been able to compromise some of America’s most important satellites, including the missile launch detection birds known as SBIRS.”
At issue: Inadequate protection of Air Force Space Command’s satellite supply chain, meaning that “an adversary has opportunity to infiltrate the Air Force Space Command supply chain and sabotage, maliciously introduce an unwanted function, or otherwise compromise the design or integrity of the critical hardware, software, and firmware,” the DoD IG report said.
Not everyone is convinced that our adversaries have managed to penetrate our critical SBIRS constellation.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com
This was again evident after the Department of Defense Inspector General released a report this week saying some of our country’s most important satellites — those the Air Force uses to detect enemy ICBM launches — could be compromised by Russian and Chinese hackers.
As Breaking Defense reports, there isn’t any direct evidence proving that such hacking has taken place, but “If China and Russia’s spies have been doing their jobs well they might well have been able to compromise some of America’s most important satellites, including the missile launch detection birds known as SBIRS.”
At issue: Inadequate protection of Air Force Space Command’s satellite supply chain, meaning that “an adversary has opportunity to infiltrate the Air Force Space Command supply chain and sabotage, maliciously introduce an unwanted function, or otherwise compromise the design or integrity of the critical hardware, software, and firmware,” the DoD IG report said.
Not everyone is convinced that our adversaries have managed to penetrate our critical SBIRS constellation.
(Excerpt) Read more at thenationalsentinel.com
