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Hack The DHS Bill Introduced In House

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, June 14th, 2017

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A bipartisan bill aimed at enlisting friendly hackers to try and penetrate the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) computer systems in order to help find weaknesses in the department’s networks was introduced in the House on June 6.The five-page Hack DHS Act is a companion bill to bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate in May to create a bug bounty pilot program for “white-hat” hackers to help identify vulnerabilities in DHS networks and data systems.The bill was introduced in the House by Reps. Ted…

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