How White Hat Hackers Keep Military Systems Safe
Peter Suciu / Apr 19, 2020
Last fall a total of 60 hackers managed to access the United States Air Force Virtual Data Center. According to Forbes.com a “battalion of hackers†worked from October 23 to November 20 and successfully gained access to the USAF VDC’s servers.
No personnel or personal information was compromised, nor were any American military secrets. This wasn’t even technically a breach of the systems. That’s because the hackers were of the white hat variety and took part in the fourth “Hack the Air Force Challenge,†which was operated in partnership between the United States Department of Defense (DoD) and the HackerOne hacking platform.
Programs such as this are actually designed to strengthen the DoD’s security posture, not to weaken it.
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