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Defense Department Opens Up Registration Website For ‘Hack the Pentagon’ Effort

Wednesday, April 6th, 2016

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The Defense Department’s “Hack the Pentagon” pilot program has officially kicked off and is accepting applicants, the department said March 31.Earlier in March, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter announced on a trip to Silicon Valley that the department planned to start a new “bug bounty” program that would allow hackers to find security vulnerabilities within selected official websites. Although companies such as Apple [AAPL] and Tesla Motors [TSLA] regularly use such programs to root out bad code in their products, no…

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