Hack DHS launched in December 2021 with the goal of developing a model that can be used by other organizations across every level of government to increase their own cybersecurity resilience. During ...

Sextortion-based hacking, which hijacks a victim's webcam or blackmails them with nudes they're tricked or coerced into ...

The "Hack the Pentagon" program was launched in 2016 to encourage ethical hackers and security researchers to find flaws in public-facing Defense Department applications and websites. The program is ...

The intrusion into the federal judiciary’s case filing system was like “taking candy from a baby,” said one person with ...

DHS' new program leans on private sector bug hunts and previous government efforts to find and close vulnerabilities while researching new ways to prevent hacks.

The United States Department of Defense (DOD) has expanded its ethical hacking program to include more targets. DoD officials announced yesterday that the Department's Vulnerability Disclosure Program ...

Facebook is launching a new loyalty program for white hat hackers and a new description language to standardize the process for reporting bugs.

Unlike the Hack the Pentagon program, which offered hackers static websites that weren't operationally-significant as targets, Hack the Army will offer dynamic exchanges of personal identifiable ...

'Hack the Pentagon' and Get Paid Legally in New Program Defense Secretary announces "unprecedented" test of security with "bug bounty." ...

Announcing what it calls "the first cyber bug bounty program in the history of the federal government," the Department of Defense says it's inviting hackers to test the security of its Web pages ...

When Jacob Appelbaum spoke at a workshop for Arab bloggers in Beirut in 2009, he knew his audience would pay special attention. The 26-year-old American programmer had spent the previous year in ...