The US Defense Department is inviting vetted white-hat hackers to hunt for vulnerabilities in its public web pages under a pilot bug bounty program. The new “Hack the Pentagon” announced today by DoD officials took the security industry by surprise.
The US Defense Department is inviting vetted white-hat hackers to hunt for vulnerabilities in its public web pages under a pilot bug bounty program. The new “Hack the Pentagon” announced today by DoD officials took the security industry by surprise.
An audit due out Friday found 3,000 “critical” and “high-risk” vulnerabilities in three key bureaus at the Interior Department, the agency hosting the hacked personnel files of 4.2 million federal employees. The weak spots, discovered through testing by the Interior inspector general’s office, affect hundreds of publicly accessible computers, according to a summary of the […]
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