Jared Serbu, DoD Reporter, Federal News Radio

A cloudy legal system is leaving an untold number of federal IT systems vulnerable to severe cyber attacks. One of the worst cybersecurity bugs in history survi...

A cloudy legal system is leaving an untold number of federal IT systems vulnerable to severe cyber attacks. One of the worst cybersecurity bugs in history survived several days longer than necessary last month. It survived because it wasn’t clear whether they had the legal authority to fix it not because they didn’t know how. Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu explains it. Read the related story by Jared Serbu.

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