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Senate Passes DHS Bug Bounty Program Bill

By Matthew Beinart

Wednesday, April 18th, 2018

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Senate Passes DHS Bug Bounty Program Bill

The Senate unanimously passed a bill Tuesday to create a program for hackers to infiltrate Department of Homeland Security networks with the aim of discovering software vulnerabilities before malicious actors can carry out their own cyber attacks.The bipartisan Hack Department of Homeland Security Act (S.1281), sponsored by Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) and Rob Portman (R-Ohio), would establish a bug bounty pilot program modeled after the Department of Defense’s Hack the Pentagon initiative.“Protecting the Department of Homeland Security from the cyber…

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