
The Defense Department’s “Hack the Pentagon” pilot program has officially kicked off and is accepting applicants, the department said Thursday.Earlier this month, 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 (Defense Daily, March 2). Although companies such as Apple [AAPL] and Tesla Motors [TSLA] regularly use such programs to root out bad code in their…