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Hack The DHS Bill Introduced In House

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, June 6th, 2017

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Hack The DHS Bill Introduced In House

Rep. Ted Lieu (D-Calif.), co-sponsor of Hack DHS Act.

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 Tuesday.The five-page Hack DHS Act is a companion bill to bipartisan legislation introduced in the Senate last month to create a bug bounty pilot program for “white-hat” hackers to help identify vulnerabilities in DHS networks and data systems (Defense Daily, May 26).The bill was introduced…

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