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Defense Digital Service Director Chris Lynch speaks during an industry event in Arlington, Va. March 7, 2018. (DoD photo by EJ Hersom)

Chris Lynch departing Defense Digital Service

Lynch will be succeeded by Brett Goldstein, a Navy adviser whom acting Secretary of Defense Patrick Shanahan recruited to report directly to him.
Staff Sgt. Alek Albrecht participates in a Network War Bridge Course at the 39th Information Operations Squadron Sept. 19, 2014, Hurlburt Field, Fla. Albrecht is practicing to hack into a simulated network to better understand what techniques real hackers may use when attempting to infiltrate Air Force networks. Air Force Space Command provides trained and ready cyber forces to the warfighter through 24th Air Force. Albrecht is a Air Force Network Operations and Security Center enterprise network technician. (U.S. Air Force photo/Airman 1st Class Krystal Ardrey)

Air Force opens itself up to hacking, again

It's the "most inclusive" bug bounty program to date, meaning that foreign nationals — except those from China, Russia, Iran or North Korea — are welcome to…
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The Defense Department issued a custom “challenge coin” for one of the Hack the Pentagon pilot programs in 2016. (Defense Digital Service / Twitter)

DOD expands Hack the Pentagon program to cover hardware, systems

DOD tapped cybersecurity firms Synack, HackerOne and Bugcrowd to provide vetted hackers for continual assessments of defense websites, hardware and physical systems.
Marines sit at a Joint Tactical Common Operation Picture Workstation, or JTCW. The Marine Corps opened up a bug bounty to find flaws in public facing Marine Corps systems.

Marines launch bug bounty at Las Vegas event

The Hack the Marine Corps program launched Aug. 12 with a live hacking event in Las Vegas.
The Defense Department issued a custom “challenge coin” for one of the Hack the Pentagon pilot programs in 2016. (Defense Digital Service / Twitter)

Inside DOD’s latest Hack the Pentagon bug bounty

This time the Pentagon wants hackers to find vulnerabilities in the Defense Travel System's public-facing websites.
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