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Business/Financial

SASC Investigation Finds Flaws in DoD’s Cyber Attack Reporting Procedures for Contractors

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, September 17th, 2014

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SASC Investigation Finds Flaws in DoD’s Cyber Attack Reporting Procedures for Contractors

U.S. Transportation Command was aware of only two of at least 20 cyber intrusions on its contractors in a one-year period, according to an investigation by the Senate Armed Services Committee, sparking the committee to include corrective action in its version of the 2015 defense authorization bill. SASC Chairman Carl Levin (D-Mich.) said the problem outlined in his investigation report–just declassified on Wednesday–is two-fold. First, transportation companies, some of them small businesses, have not been able to keep their networks…

Congress

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