Internal report: Pentagon at ‘high risk’ of cyberbreaches

Published February 1, 2016 4:19pm ET



The Defense Department is at a “high risk” of “compromise, exploitation and disruption” from cyberattacks, the Pentagon’s chief weapons tester wrote in his annual report to Congress on Monday.

While improvements had been observed over the previous year, Operational Test and Evaluation Director Michael Gilmore wrote, there were “many cases” in which “catastrophic kinetic impacts could be enabled” in the event of cyberattacks on the Defense Department.

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