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Air Force Starts Own Bug Bounty Program

Thursday, April 27th, 2017

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Air Force Starts Own Bug Bounty Program

U.S. Air Force officials announced Wednesday the start of a new Defense Department “bug bounty” program directed at the service to find cyber vulnerabilities in public-facing websites.This new bug bounty, dubbed “Hack the Air Force,” is part of the Cyber Secure campaign sponsored by the Air Force Chief Information Office and expands of the Defense Department’s previously “Hack the Pentagon” program. The goal is to further operationalize the domain and leverage talent from inside and outside the department, the Air…

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