DOD Expands Hacker Program
The United States Department of Defense (DOD) has expanded its ethical hacking program to include more targets.
DoD officials announced yesterday that the Department s Vulnerability Disclosure Program will be broadened to include all publicly accessible DOD information systems.
Bug hunters were first invited to engage with the DOD in 2016 when the initiative Hack the Pentagon was launched. Through this initiative, the Defense Digital Service set up a bug bounty program to reward ethical hackers for identifying flaws in the Department s digital defenses.
Director of the Defense Digital Service Brett Goldstein said that before the initiative was introduced, ethical hackers who discovered a vulnerability had no way of communicating their findings to the DOD.