
An inaugural crowdsourced security inspection of Defense Department computing networks uncovered hundreds of vulnerabilities at a fraction of the cost of a third-party network audit, Secretary of Defense Ash Carter said Friday.The “Hack The Pentagon” event was not only the first “bug bounty” conducted by the Pentagon, it was the first such program in the entire federal government. Bug bounties, in which benign hackers are recruited to probe a network for vulnerabilities and are rewarded for finding legitimate security flaws,…