Uncle Sam wants 'ethical hackers' to crack its planetary defenses, but don't expect a pay-day from this bug bounty

Uncle Sam wants 'ethical hackers' to crack its planetary defenses, but don't expect a pay-day from this bug bounty

In brief The United States' Department of Defense has opened up all of its publicly facing systems and apps to investigation under a bug bounty program.


In a massive expansion of its Vulnerability Disclosure Program, started in 2016, the DoD said it was looking for "ethical hackers" to look for flaws and fixes. The bug bounty system had only been aimed at websites but now Kristopher Johnson, director of its Vulnerability Disclosure Program, has said "websites were only the beginning as they account for a fraction of our overall attack surface" and urged the infosec community to take a wider view.


That said, don't expect to get rich from this program. The first trial five years ..

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