F-35's Vulnerabilities to Cyberattacks Provide Cautionary Tale

[rangerrebew]

F-35's Vulnerabilities to Cyberattacks Provide Cautionary Tale
By Vivienne Machi



When it comes to protecting new weapon systems from cyberattacks, the Air Force can learn from the mistakes it made on the F-35A program, the senior service official in charge of network operations said July 7.

"For newer weapons systems, there is a tremendous effort to ensure that key parameters in the cybersecurity realm are being met," Chief Information Officer Lt. Gen. William Bender said during a breakfast meeting with reporters in Washington, D.C.

The cyber warfare threat is real, he added. The F-35 Lightning II development provides a cautionary tale for the B-21 and other programs in development, he said.

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[Smokin Joe]

"About 80 percent of our threat vector is self-induced," Bender said. "It's just bad behavior, on how you click on links and use thumb drives, all of the things we know not to do."

I knew a fellow who had left the USAF to work in the oilfield doing MWD (Measurement While Drilling, providing real-time data from a survey tool near the drill bit), work on horizontal wells. He had done basic computer security audits, and found the two biggest problems were Passwords either written on a surface under the keyboard or taped to the underside, and the password "password". 

No system can be created which cannot be messed up from the inside, even if the problems are not malicious.

[Blizzardnh]

I knew a fellow who had left the USAF to work in the oilfield doing MWD (Measurement While Drilling, providing real-time data from a survey tool near the drill bit), work on horizontal wells. He had done basic computer security audits, and found the two biggest problems were Passwords either written on a surface under the keyboard or taped to the underside, and the password "password". 

No system can be created which cannot be messed up from the inside, even if the problems are not malicious.

The amount of people on the net that have admin / password is crazy.

[Oceander]

In the 60s it was plastics; in the 2010s it's cyber security.  Pace Mr. Robinson!

[rangerrebew]

In the 60s it was plastics; in the 2010s it's cyber security.  Pace Mr. Robinson!

I fear in the 2020s it may be chains of slavery.  Of course, I'll be pushing up daises or so senile it won't matter to me but it will to my kids.