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Marines Prepare for Night Raids
Marines of Company K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, don night-vision goggles on their helmets and watch as a CH-53E Super Stallion lands prior to a night raid during the battalion’s Marine Corps Combat Readiness Evaluation at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., June 6. The Marines participated in the exercise to prepare for a deployment later this year.
Pentagon Offers “Bug Bounty” C
omputer networks, ap- plications, and websites — including those at DoD — are
under constant attack. In order to bolster its digital defenses in this cyberwar, DoD launched an innovative pilot program that fights fire with fire. “Hack the Pentagon,” led by the Defense Digital Service, borrowed a page from the private sector and invited hackers to test the security of its systems in what is known as a bug bounty program. Common practice among large companies, these programs provide
incentives to computer security spe- cialists, often referred to as white- hat hackers, to break into protected systems and networks in order to test and assess their security. The unconventional ex- perts who take up the challenge are able to expose vul- nerabilities before malicious hackers can detect and exploit them. More than 1,400 vetted hackers reg-
istered to participate in Hack the Pentagon, the first bug bounty chal- lenge in the history of the federal government. When the competition began in April, it took only 13 min- utes for hackers to discover the first vulnerability. By the time the pilot wrapped up in May, 138 vul- nerabilities had been revealed. — Christina Wood
online: Read the full “Pentagon Offers ‘Bug Bounty’” story online at
www.moaa.org/bugbounty. IMAGES: RIGHT, SHUTTERSTOCK; TOP, LANCE CPL. TIMOTHY VALERO, USMC
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