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Navy/USMC

Marine Corps Kicks Off Bug Bounty Program, Finds 75 Network Vulnerabilities

By Matthew Beinart

Monday, August 13th, 2018

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Marine Corps Kicks Off Bug Bounty Program, Finds 75 Network Vulnerabilities

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The Marine Corps is the latest service to kick off a bug bounty program to uncover vulnerabilities in its network, with hackers already discovering 75 security flaws at an event last Saturday. Hack the Marine Corps will run through August 26 and pay ethical hackers to find discover potential areas for cyber exploitation in the public-facing websites of the Marine Corps Enterprise Network (MCEN).“Hack the Marine Corps allows us to leverage the talents of the global ethical hacker community to…

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