Thousands of Weather Satellite Bugs Won’t Be Fixed For Years

[InfoSec News <alerts () infosecnews org>]

http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2014/08/tens-thousands-weather-satellite-bugs-wont-be-fixed-years/92465/

By Aliya Sternstein
Nextgov.com
August 26, 2014

The Commerce Department inspector general is blasting a federal 
climate-satellite program and its supporting contractor, Raytheon, for 
ignoring tens of thousands of major cyber vulnerabilities.

The weaknesses identified in a new IG memo could impair machines 
controlling the Joint Polar Satellite System, the nation's next-generation 
fleet of polar orbiting environmental satellites.

The ground system routes information for the National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration and the Pentagon, as well as other U.S. and 
foreign government agencies. NOAA, part of Commerce, manages the 
information technology system.

The system’s critical vulnerabilities have spiked by more than 60 percent 
since 2012, increasing from 14,486 security holes to 23,868 holes.

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