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Pentagon is planning another bug bounty contract

May 22, 2018 By Andrew Smith

The Pentagon is considering offering a broad bug bounty contract that would accommodate a variety of different bounty models on either short-term or continuous timeframes, according to contracting documents released earlier this month.

The move comes after two years during which the Defense Department and military services have launched five high-profile bug bounties targeting the Pentagon, Air Force, Army and the department’s travel booking system.

Bug bounties are contests in which ethical hackers are offered cash rewards for finding hackable vulnerabilities in websites, apps and other software. So far, the Pentagon and military services have paid out more than $400,000 for valid bug reports.

Keep reading this article at: https://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2018/05/pentagon-planning-another-bug-bounty-contract/148292/

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: bug bounty, DoD, hack, Hack the Pentagon, Pentagon

GSA tech office launches bug bounty program

May 17, 2017 By Andrew Smith

The cybersecurity company that ran a bug bounty program for the Army and is running ongoing programs for the Pentagon and Air Force will run a similar program for the government’s technology user experience wing, that office announced Friday.

The program run by HackerOne will offer cash rewards ranging from $300 to $5,000 to security researchers who spot dangerous vulnerabilities in websites and applications run by the General Services Administration’s Technology Transformation Service.

TTS did not give a start date for the program.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2017/05/gsa-tech-office-launches-bug-bounty-program/137817

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: Air Force, Army, bug bounty, cybersecurity, GSA, hack, hackers, reward

DoD wants you to hack the Pentagon again and again

October 28, 2016 By Andrew Smith

The Defense Department plans to make Hack the Pentagon-style bug bounty challenges available in a new contract vehicle.

The department contracted HackerOne and Synack to create a contract vehicle that allows DoD components and services to launch such competitions to discover and remediate website vulnerabilities.

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Though tech companies have long used bug-bounty programs to root out security issues, the Pentagon and the Defense Digital Service experimented with it for the first time in the spring. The numbers of Hack the Pentagon are impressive: 1,400 vetted hackers tested five websites, 138 unique vulnerabilities were found and fixed, and it cost $150,000 with about half going to pay the participants. The department said hiring a contractor for similar efforts would have cost about $1 million.

Keep reading this article at: http://www.nextgov.com/defense/2016/10/dod-wants-you-hack-pentagon-again-and-again/132539

Filed Under: Contracting News Tagged With: bug bounty, DoD, Hack the Pentagon

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