Ethical hackers sabotage F-15 fighter jet flight system, expose serious vulnerabilities

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Ethical hackers sabotage F-15 fighter jet flight system, expose serious vulnerabilities
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'When our adversaries carry out malicious attacks, they don't hold back and aren't afraid to be creative'

A team of hackers given unprecedented access to a flight system used in F-15 fighter jets reportedly confirmed the existence of serious cybersecurity bugs.

The ethical hackers were brought there by Synack, a cyber company that partners with the Department of Defense on a" "We want to bring this community to bear on real weapons systems and real airplanes. And if they have vulnerabilities, it would be best to find them before we go into conflict," Roper added.

The same year, the Pentagon started to bulk up relationships with the private sector, mostly led by a technology and research division called the

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