Hackers invited by the US government as part of a pilot program to find security flaws with five Pentagon websites discovered 138 vulnerabilities, defence secretary Ash Carter has revealed.
The “Hack the Pentagon” event, which offered the first “bug bounty” in the history of US government, attracted 1410 participants.
The program cost US$150,000, with about half of the sum going to hackers.
“It’s not a small sum, but if we had gone through the normal process of hiring an outside firm to do a security audit and vulnerability assessment, which is what we usually do, it would have cost us more than US$1 million,” Mr Carter said.
“Beyond the security fixes we’ve made, we’ve built stronger bridges to innovative citizens who want to make a difference to our defence mission.” For the full article click here
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