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This expansion is a testament to transforming the government s approach to security and leapfrogging the current state of technology within DOD, he said. Before the program’s launch, researchers had no way of reporting bugs they found in publicly accessible DoD systems. “Because of this, many vulnerabilities went unreported, said Goldstein. The DOD Vulnerability Policy launched in 2016 because we demonstrated the efficacy of working with the hacker community and even hiring hackers to find and fix vulnerabilities in systems. Since the launch of the Vulnerability Disclosure Program, security researchers have submitted over 29,000 vulnerability reports. Officials said that over 70% of them were determined to be valid. ....
Experts Increasingly View SolarWinds Breach as Attack on US, Opening Way for Retaliation On 12/18/20 at 7:44 PM EST The unprecedented hack that appears to have first hit software company SolarWinds before spreading to some of the highest levels of the U.S. government is testing the definition of what constitutes cyber espionage and what the Pentagon defines as an actual attack on the nation. If it is determined to be an attack, experts warn it would open the way for retaliation, including in the physical realm. But defining exactly what constitutes an attack in cyberspace, even in the 21st century, remains a murky issue. ....