New York senator Charles Schumer called for ‘immediate action’ to improve the security of the Federal Aviation Administrations computer systems. He compared the potential damage to the Sony Pictures attack which hit Sony Pictures last year. The GAO has 168 security recommendations designed to improve network security. FAA administrator Michael Huerta told Congress that his agency was implementing changes to security, but that a lot of the points made by the report had been identified and already remediated.”]

