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In brief The United States Department of Defense has opened up all of its publicly facing systems and apps to investigation under a bug bounty program.
In a massive expansion of its Vulnerability Disclosure Program, started in 2016, the DoD said it was looking for ethical hackers to look for flaws and fixes. The bug bounty system had only been aimed at websites but now Kristopher Johnson, director of its Vulnerability Disclosure Program, has said websites were only the beginning as they account for a fraction of our overall attack surface and urged the infosec community to take a wider view.
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The Department of Defense will expand its vulnerability disclosure program in the coming months, inviting ethical hackers to find flaws in a wider array of systems and applications within the Pentagon s public-facing networks.
The Hack the Pentagon program was launched in 2016 to encourage ethical hackers and security researchers to find flaws in public-facing Defense Department applications and websites. The program is overseen by the DOD Cyber Crime Center.
Now, the Pentagon is expanding the program to include all publicly accessible Defense Department systems, which includes IoT devices, industrial control systems, networks and frequency-based communication systems.