Pierluigi Paganini
September 30, 2022
The US Department of Defense (DoD) shared the results of the Hack US bug bounty program that took place in July. On July 4, 2022, the US Department of Defense (DoD) and HackerOne started the Hack US, a one-week bug bounty challenge, which is considered part of DoDâs vulnerability disclosure program (VDP). The challenge was launched Chief […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2020
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) US agency in charge of secure IT and communication for the White House has disclosed a data breach. The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the DoD agency that is in charge of the security of IT and telecommunications for the White House and military troops has suffered a cyber […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 07, 2019
Cisco released security updates to address over two dozen serious vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco Nexus switches. Cisco released security updates to address over two dozen serious vulnerabilities affecting the Cisco Nexus switches, including denial-of-service (DoS) issues, arbitrary code execution and privilege escalation flaws. Cisco published security advisories for most of the vulnerabilities, many of them impact the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
December 16, 2018
U.S. Ballistic Missile Defense Systems Fail Cybersecurity Audit US DoD Inspector General’s report revealed United States’ ballistic missile defense systems (BMDS) fail to implements cyber security requirements. The U.S. Department of Defense Inspector General published a report this week that revealed that lack of adequate cybersecurity for the protection of the United States’ ballistic missile defense systems […]
Pierluigi Paganini
November 13, 2017
Bug bounty programs allowed the US agency to receive 2,837 valid bug reports from 650 white hat hackers located in 50 countries around the world. Bug bounty program ‘Hack the Pentagon’ launched by the Pentagon in 2016 along with the vulnerability disclosure policy announced nearly one year ago allowed the US agency to receive 2,837 valid bug reports […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 17, 2017
The British hacker Sean Caffrey, 25, from Sutton Coldfield pleaded guilty to stealing satellite data from US Department of Defense (DoD). The British hacker Sean Caffrey, 25, from Sutton Coldfield pleaded guilty to stealing user accounts from a U.S. military communications system. According to the NCA, the man admitted in the Birmingham Crown Court to stealing […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 20, 2016
David Dworken is the name of the student that hacked into the Pentagon US military’s website between classes at Maret High School and that the Government thanked. Recently we have reported the first results of the “Hack the Pentagon” program that allowed the discovery of numerous flaws in the computers of the US Government. News […]
Pierluigi Paganini
June 14, 2016
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 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 12, 2016
A report published by the DoD Inspector General revealed that military drones have been used for Non-Military domestic Surveillance. The US Government has admitted the use of drones for operations of domestic surveillance. The US Military clarified that all the operations were authorized by a regular warrant confirming that no legal violations were found. The news was revealed by the USA […]
Pierluigi Paganini
March 02, 2016
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, […]
