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Pentagon expands ‘bug bounty’ program to all publicly accessible information systems

By Justin Doubleday / May 6, 2021

The Defense Department is expanding its "bug bounty" program to all its publicly accessible information systems, allowing authorized hackers to investigate and report cyber vulnerabilities in industrial control systems, Internet of Things devices, and other networks.

The development marks a major expansion in the scope of DOD’s vulnerability disclosure program. The original program started with a “Hack the Pentagon” program in 2016 that allowed security researchers to probe public-facing DOD networks without fear of reprisal.

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