
SAN FRANCISCO—The Pentagon is inviting hackers to hunt down vulnerabilities in select Defense Department websites through a new “bug bounty” initiative announced Wednesday.Private companies such as Google [GOOG], Tesla Motors [TSLA] and Adobe Systems [ADBE] have used bug bounty competitions to tease out vulnerabilities in its own code, ultimately resulting in a more secure system.The department plans to employ a similar process for its own “Hack the Pentagon” pilot program, the first ever bug bounty competition ever created by the…