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DHS marks expansion of bug bounty efforts with impending contract awards

DHS is planning to award upwards of four contracts to help expand its bug bounty software vulnerability program.

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

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(AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)Air Force

Air Force cloud had 54 vulnerabilities before hackers found them

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Ash Carter

Ash Carter brings on more innovators to upgrade DoD

Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced he is adding three members to the Defense Innovation Advisory Board. Two of them are technologists and Silicon Valley…

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Brian Wallace

Pentagon sees white hat hackers as low-cost penetration testers

The Defense Department announced it would be launching the federal government’s first-ever “bug bounty,” banking on the idea that there’s a nascent…

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