Hack the Pentagon DoD would invite outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public US Defense Department resources as part of a pilot initiative. The Pentagon already uses its own internal security experts (so-called red teams) to test its networks, but openness to external hackers could give a major impetus in finding vulnerabilities in government systems. The program is modeled after similar competitions known as bug bounties that are conducted by big U.S. companies to discover gaps in the security of their networks.”]
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