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Pentagon’s vulnerability disclosure program developing expansion plans to cover more contractors

Melissa Vice, the director of the Department of Defense’s Vulnerability Disclosure Program, said the 12-month voluntary pilot with defense contractors…

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Hackers find more than 400 vulnerabilities in DoD’s industrial base companies

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The Pentagon’s ‘SWAT Team of Nerds’

Cybersecurity

How agencies can benefit from good hackers

Federal Insights

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CIA cloud program awarded; CISA cyber program under protest

Reporter's Notebook

Energy Regulatory Commission chairman resigns due to health concerns

Federal Newscast

Jared Serbu: DoD anti-hacker program uncovers 3,000 bugs

Federal Drive

Marten Mickos: Air Force bug bounty exposes 207 vulnerabilities

Federal Drive

In DoD first, Air Force launches bug bounty open to foreign hackers

Air Force

In this, Monday, Dec. 12, 2016, photo illustration, a woman types on her laptop, in Miami. Details from the Department of Justice indictment of Russian hackers on Wednesday, March 15, 2017, show that many people are still not taking routine precautions to safeguard their email accounts, and hackers are exploiting that. (AP Photo/Wilfredo Lee)

Lessons learned from DoD’s bug bounties highlight gaps in talent, secrecy

Cybersecurity

Army’s first-ever bug bounty finds entry points to sensitive DoD systems

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Army’s first bug bounty uncovers entry point to sensitive DoD network

When Army officials decided to launch the service’s first-ever bug bounty, one of the key questions they wanted to answer was whether sensitive personnel…

DoD Reporter's Notebook

IRS hires ‘white-hat’ hackers to help protect IT systems

Under a $2 million contract, Synack Government will use ethical hackers for penetration testing of IRS cybersecurity systems.

Cybersecurity

Pentagon expands white-hat hacker challenge to all comers

Defense

The Defense Department undertook a significant expansion of its new crowdsourced approach to cybersecurity Monday, opening its “Hack the Pentagon” challenge to literally anyone and providing them a legal route to report any security holes they find.