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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.