Security News

US Army Researching Bot Swarms (Schneier on Security)
2017-07-24 11:39

The US Army Research Agency is funding research into autonomous bot swarms. From the announcement: The objective of this CRA is to perform enabling basic and applied research to extend the reach,...

Facing limits of remote hacking, Army cybers up the battlefield (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-13 10:45

Army prepares for a less friendly electronic battlespace, embeds cyber in units.

Facing limits of remote hacking, Army cybers up the battlefield (ArsTechnica)
2017-06-13 10:45

Army prepares for a less friendly electronic battlespace, embeds cyber in units.

An Army of Thousands of Hacked Servers Found Mining Cryptocurrencies (The Hackers News)
2017-05-05 02:19

A new botnet consisting of more than 15,000 compromised servers has been used to mine various cryptocurrencies, earning its master around $25,000 per month. Mining cryptocurrencies can be a costly...

Have security conferences become an 'army of noise'? (ZDNet)
2017-04-04 14:48

Katie Moussouris on Bug Bounty Programs, Hack the Army, and Wassenaar (Threatpost)
2017-02-27 15:15

Katie Moussouris on how bug bounty programs have gone mainstream, the success of Hack the Pentagon and Hack the Army, and where things stand with the Wassenaar Arrangement.

Former US Army National Guard member jailed for supporting ISIS (ZDNet)
2017-02-13 05:22

Programmer releases bot army to crush Windows Support scammers (ZDNet)
2017-02-09 06:21

Hack the Army Bounty Pays Out $100,000; 118 Flaws Fixed (Threatpost)
2017-01-20 18:00

The U.S. Army released the results of its Hack the Army bug bounty, and said that close to $100,000 was paid out, and 118 unique and actionable vulnerabilities were reported.

Army Bug Bounty Building New Relationships with Hackers (Threatpost)
2016-11-14 17:03

The government announced its second bug bounty program called Hack the Army, which will concentrate on finding bugs in recruiting websites and databases.