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Pentagon Spending $34 Million To Expand Ethical Hacking Program

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, October 24th, 2018

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Pentagon Spending $34 Million To Expand Ethical Hacking Program

Ethical hackers participate in the Hack the Marine Corps bug bounty program. Photo: HackerOne.

The Department of Defense is expanding its bug bounty program, awarding $34 million in contracts to three companies, as the department looks to task ethical hackers with finding vulnerabilities beyond public facing domains.DoD’s Defense Digital Service (DDS) has tasked cyber security companies HackerOne, Bugcrowd and Synack with running programs through 2021 to pay hackers for discovering network flaws that will now include private Pentagon assets.“Finding innovative ways to identify vulnerabilities and strengthen security has never been more important,” Chris Lynch,…

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