The famously hoodie-clad founder of the Defense Digital Service defends his legacy as he prepares to hand over the helm.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.When the stakes for space missions are at their highest, solid rocket motors meet the challenge
Rapid response is crucial in defense, and the instant thrust provided by SRMs provide a tactical advantage.
HackerOne, Synack, and newcomer Bugcrowd split up to $34 million.
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
The Pentagon’s willingness to pay freelance hackers to report cyber vulnerabilities has opened the floodgates for similar programs from other agencies, report the organizers of the original Hack The Pentagon. San Francisco-based HackerOne now counts clients ranging from the US Air Force, Army, and Defense Travel System to the Singaporean Ministry of Defense and the…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
A project called Hack the Air Force is paying “white hat” hackers over $130,000 for finding weak points in its websites, the service announced this morning. It’s the Defense Department’s third “bug bounty” – a high-profile initiative of Obama’s last Defense Secretary, Ashton Carter, that’s survived under Trump. [CORRECTED FIGURES} Hack the Pentagon found 138 unique,…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
PENTAGON: Excited by the success of April’s Hack The Pentagon contest, the Defense Department will allow so-called white hat hackers to test all its unclassified public websites. First, a new policy released today encourages anyone to look for weaknesses in any public DoD site, as long as they report what they find. Then, for a select subset of…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
SAN FRANCISCO: Uncle Sam wants you, Defense Secretary Ash Carter told a skeptical tech community yesterday. It’s part of an all-out effort by the military’s civilian leader to get the technologically best and brightest to work with or even for the often-hidebound Pentagon. Carter has created the Defense Innovation Unit Experimental (DIUX) and the Defense Digital Service, both…
By Sydney J. Freedberg Jr.
