AP Photo/Mel EvansThe U.S. Defense Department is stepping up its efforts to collaborate with Silicon Valley, hoping to attract the best and brightest into government service and boost its ability to equip American troops with cutting-edge technology.
The multi-pronged approach announced in earnest on Wednesday introduced a somewhat commonly used recruiting tool in Silicon Valley: a hack-a-thon.
“Hack the Pentagon,” the federal government’s first “bug bounty” effort, will kick off in April as high-tech specialists try to breach the Pentagon’s public Internet pages to show how bad actors might be able to infiltrate the building’s networks, which are believed to be attacked …read more
Source: Business Insider
