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Pentagon Paid Out $290,000 for Vulnerabilities in Air Force Data Center
2020-04-16 12:52

The Pentagon's latest bug bounty challenge, Hack the Air Force 4.0, has resulted in the discovery of over 400 vulnerabilities and rewards totaling more than $290,000. As part of the fourth Hack the Air Force program, which ran between October 23 and November 20, 2019, participants were invited to find vulnerabilities in a pool of cloud servers and systems called the Air Force Virtual Data Center.

Air Force hires Trueface for facial recognition on bases
2019-11-19 18:18

Trueface will provide Air Force bases with systems that can identify faces, license plates and guns.

US Air Force inks deal with Raytheon on Windows 10 (and other) support for ARSE
2019-11-01 10:08

Two countries separated by a common language The US Air Force (USAF) has declared it is awarding a contract to Raytheon thanks to its pressing need for "full ARSE compatibility", including Windows...

Air Force to offer up a satellite to hackers at Defcon 2020
2019-09-19 14:42

This year, the Air Force presented vetted hackers with a plane's subsystem, which they duly tore up. Next year, it will be a satellite.

How the Air Force used a bug bounty program to hack its own cloud server
2019-08-07 14:14

The Air Force paid out $123,000 to researchers who found vulnerabilities in the organization's move to the cloud. Here's why.

US Air Force probes targeted malware attack, blames... er, the US Navy? What?
2019-05-22 14:59

War crimes trial takes a fresh twist The US Air Force has opened an investigation into a "malware" infection – which it is blaming on lawyers employed by the US Navy who are working on a war crimes case.…

Air Force intel bod Daniel Hale charged with 'leaking drone documents' to journo
2019-05-09 20:41

Soldier's pilfered docs provided basis for drone news reports A former Air Force intelligence analyst who fed documents to the press detailing the US military's secret drone programs has been...

US Air Force and Privoro partners for MDM solution
2019-04-26 18:21

New mobile security prototyping contracting between Privoro and the United States Air Force leverages the SafeCase, intelligent smartphone case.

Former U.S. Air Force Officer Indicted for Aiding Iranian Cyber Attacks
2019-02-14 15:31

Former Air Force intelligence officer, Monica Elfriede Witt, has been charged with betraying her oath to protect and defend the United States and providing secret U.S. information to the Iranian...

US Air Force Veteran Charged in Iran Hacking Scheme
2019-02-14 10:18

Monica Witt Allegedly Aided Spear-Phishing Attacks Against US MilitaryA former U.S. Air Force counterintelligence agent was indicted for disclosing classified information and helping Iran...