Hack the Pentagon II finds vulnerability in secure DoD systems

Federal Times: The Department of Defense has been alerted to critical vulnerabilities in a secure file transfer system it uses after a group of 80 security researchers vetted and recruited by application security company Synack Inc. participated in a sanctioned Hack-the-Pentagon exercise from Jan. 11-Feb. 7.

Founded by two former National Security Agency analysts, Synack was commissioned in spring 2016 to carry out bug bounties on public web applications and most recently to gather adversarial intelligence through a concentrated attack on sensitive DoD mechanisms replicated within a digital laboratory.

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