Wednesday, January 13, 2016

Nuclear Computers Especially Vulnerable as Cyber Attacks Rise, Watchdog Says

The nation's unclassified nuclear computer systems are vulnerable to successful cyber attacks because "generic" security contracts don't make it clear who's responsible for keeping an eye on them, federal watchdogs said Tuesday.

The Nuclear Regulatory Commission's cybersecurity center isn't "optimized to protect the agency's network in the current cyber threat environment," the NRC's inspector general office's said. The NRC's classified systems are separate and weren't addressed in the inspector general's report. 

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