Government withholding 9 percent of discovered cyber vulnerabilities from industry

By Jordana Mishory / November 11, 2015 at 9:00 AM
The federal government has withheld from industry 9 percent of cyber vulnerabilities found over the past year because secret knowledge of them could prove advantageous in the future, according to Adm. Michael Rogers, director of the National Security Agency and chief of U.S. Cyber Command. Speaking Saturday at the Reagan National Defense Forum in Simi Valley, CA, Rogers emphasized that the U.S. government disclosed 91 percent of all the vulnerabilities found in the past year. "There shouldn't be any doubt...

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