The US Department of Defense, up until this week, routinely left its social media accounts wide open to hijackers via stream keys - unique, confidential identifiers generated by streaming platforms for broadcasting content. If exposed, these keys can allow attackers to output anything they want from someone else's channel.

This was revealed by The Intercept's most recent investigation , published on Monday, which found that the Pentagon for years posted stream keys on its Defense Visual Information Distribution Service (DVIDS) website.

According to the department, this security hole has since been closed.

"The practice of uploading stream keys publicly on DVIDS has since been fixed," a Defense Department official told The Register . "New stream keys have been implemented and will no lon

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