A technology company competing for a Pentagon contract has links to an organization related to a Russian oligarch The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud is a Pentagon project focused on the U.S. defense’s confidential information protection that could ultimately store even nuclear codes. According to experts in digital forensics from the International Institute of […]
DF-ST-87-06962 The program will now consider physical systems flaws reports Cybersecurity and digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security report that the Department of Defense is in the process of expanding its vulnerability bounty program, known as “Hack the Pentagon”, to include its hardware assets, leveraging the platforms Synack, HackerOne and Bugcrowd to attract […]
The US Department of Defense has begun to notify victims of this incident involving military and civilian personnel The US Department of Defense has revealed that a security breach has exposed the travel records of at least 30k people, as reported by specialists in digital forensics from the International Institute of Cyber Security. “On October […]
Pentagon, the center of defense of the world’s only superpower: The United States of America embarrassingly admitted that the organization is one of the latest victims of a security breach, affecting the personal and financial information of its employees. This came from a system handled by a 3rd party contractor, not directly managed by the […]
Pentagon Discloses Data Breach of Defense Department travel records last Friday, more than 30,000 workers have been affected. The compromised data contains personal information, credit card data of U.S. military and civilian personnel. The Pentagon official said the breach is under investigation and no classified information was compromised. The breach appeared to happen some months […]
Google believes this project contradicts its new principles The company has given up competing to win a cloud computing contract with US intelligence, as report by digital forensics specialists from the International Institute of Cyber Security. Google has mentioned that accepting this work could have transgressed the principles it published last June, limiting its activities relatedto artificial […]
This new policy involves smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers and any other device or app whit GPS features The Department of Defense has recently launched an order banning all personnel from using any GPS services, in personal or job-issued devices, in all “operational areas”. This measure, applying to smartphones, tablets, fitness trackers and any other device […]
The Department of Defense will hire a single cloud services provider Enterprise network security specialists report that, as of last Thursday, the Department of Defense began accepting formal proposals for its highly anticipated cloud service contract, known as the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI). This contract will be awarded to a single cloud service provider – which […]
Pentagon Data Leak, other three Amazon Web Services S3 cloud storage buckets that contain social media surveillance data configured in the way that users with free AWS account can read and download the contents. Leaked data consist of billions of public internet posts, news commentary and other writings from individuals from the US and other […]
Trove included more than 1.8 billion posts spanning eight years, many from US people. A Pentagon contractor left a vast archive of social-media posts on a publicly accessible Amazon account in what appears to be a military-sponsored intelligence-gathering operation that targeted people in the US and other parts of the world. The three cloud-based storage […]
Accidents happen to everyone but according to a recent report, this one is a pretty big one. Apparently, some of the confidential data related to the US military project was simply left completely unprotected on a server belonging to Amazon. The data included over 60,000 files with some of the very sensitive info publicly accessible […]
The Pentagon has known about the problem for 8 months. The U.S. Department of Defense could be at risk of being attacked by hackers quite easily, one security researcher warns. According to ZDNet, who cites Dan Tentler, founder of cybersecurity firm Phobos Group, several misconfigured servers run by the DoD could allow hackers easy access […]
Usually, security researchers feel hesitant to report any inherent flaws and vulnerabilities in software’s code or programming and other security holes plaguing cyber-based systems of the military primarily because they fear being blamed for hacking and adverse consequences. But, now the military itself is allowing hackers a chance to point out vulnerabilities in their online […]
Short Bytes: A teen from Washington hacked the websites of US Department of Defence. But, instead of going to prison, he was thanked by the Pentagon for the work he did. This is because he was a participant of a bug bounty program titled Hack The Pentagon. David Dworken spent hours to crack down the […]
Hackers contracted by the DoD under the Hack the Pentagon initiative have found more than 100 vulnerabilities exceeding Government’s expectations. Do you remember the ‘Hack the Pentagon‘ initiative? ‘Hack the Pentagon’ is the initiative launched by the US Government this year to test the resilience to cyber attacks of the US defenses. The Pentagon has launched the […]
Pentagon’s DARPA Desperate for Developing One-Of-A-Kind Encryption Enabled Messaging App. DARPA, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, needs a secure communication and transaction platform that utilizes all the encryption tactics and security features, which popular messaging apps like WhatsApp, Richochet or Signal uses. However, DARPA also aims to create a decentralized structure just like the […]
Short Bytes: The US Department of Defense’s new division Defense Digital Service (DDS) is launching a new pilot program called Hack the Pentagon. This first of its kind bug bounty program of federal government invites hackers and coders to test the security of government services. The US government’s Department of Defence has announced that it’s […]
Hack the Pentagon – DoD would invite outside hackers to test the cybersecurity of some public US Defense Department resources as part of a pilot initiative. Which is the best way to discover security vulnerabilities affecting a computer system? Ask a group of hackers to test it. This is the concept behind a bounty program, […]
The Pentagon is asking hackers to come and hack into their systems — No, you won’t go to jail for it The US Defence Secretary Mr Ash Carter has invited hackers to hack into their systems to help find any security holes. In an effort to boost up its security system and check for any […]
Pentagon has agreed that it will be extending official military honours to remote military personnel like military hackers or drone pilots after a plan to have their own medals was dismissed, a report from NYT. When the Defence Department’s 2013 plan to honour remote military personnel like drone pilots and military hackers with separate medals […]
In August, we reported how Pentagon had its unclassified emailing server hacked allegedly by Russian hackers with a sophisticated phishing attack. Now, reportedly the computer systems of Pentagon’s food court were infiltrated by hackers and resultantly the bank details of an unspecified number of employees got leaked. [must url=”https://www.hackread.com/homeland-security-credit-cards-starbucks/”]Homeland Security Credit Cards Used to Buy Starbucks […]