Security failure
Cyber weapons have the potential to be at least as devastating as nuclear arms, but the US intelligence community is accused of "failing to adopt even the most basic cybersecurity technologies". In a letter to the US Director of National Intelligence, Senator Ron Wyden said the ongoing failures include a lack of multi-factor authentication to protect domain names and poor email security. Senator Wyden also released redacted findings from the investigation into the loss of 180GB of hacking tools and documents which ended up being published by WikiLeaks. Among the lamentable security failures behind that breach was the password that was supposed to secure the device on which the tools were stored. It was 123ABCdef. "Most of our sensitive cyber-weapons were not compartmented, users shared systems administrator-level passwords, there were no effective removable media controls, and historical data was available to users indefinitely," the CIA report says. It's worth a read as a guide to 'what not to do'.