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'Hack the Pentagon' and Get Paid Legally in New Program
Source: ABC News
'Hack the Pentagon' and Get Paid Legally in New Program
By LEE FERRAN LUIS MARTINEZ
Mar 2, 2016, 1:02 PM ET
Attention hackers: Time to re-watch “WarGames” and crack your knuckles, the Pentagon is about to pay you to break into some government systems.
Today Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the military’s first-ever “Hack the Pentagon” program in which “vetted hackers” will be paid a “bug bounty” to find vulnerabilities in what Carter called an “unprecedented effort to test our digital security.”
The hackers won’t be set loose on just any Pentagon systems, however; they'll only be allowed to find holes in a “predetermined asset” in a “controlled, limited duration program.”
“This bug bounty will not compromise any of the department’s critical, mission-facing systems,” Carter said. “Instead, it will challenge our digital security in new and innovative ways.”
Carter said that “participants” in the program will have to be registered and to submit to a background check before taking to the keyboard.
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By LEE FERRAN LUIS MARTINEZ
Mar 2, 2016, 1:02 PM ET
Attention hackers: Time to re-watch “WarGames” and crack your knuckles, the Pentagon is about to pay you to break into some government systems.
Today Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced the military’s first-ever “Hack the Pentagon” program in which “vetted hackers” will be paid a “bug bounty” to find vulnerabilities in what Carter called an “unprecedented effort to test our digital security.”
The hackers won’t be set loose on just any Pentagon systems, however; they'll only be allowed to find holes in a “predetermined asset” in a “controlled, limited duration program.”
“This bug bounty will not compromise any of the department’s critical, mission-facing systems,” Carter said. “Instead, it will challenge our digital security in new and innovative ways.”
Carter said that “participants” in the program will have to be registered and to submit to a background check before taking to the keyboard.
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Read more: http://abcnews.go.com/US/hack-pentagon-paid-legally-program/story?id=37344423
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