Announcing what it calls "the first cyber bug bounty program in the history of the federal government," the Department of Defense says it's inviting vetted hackers to test the security of its web pages and networks.
Vetted hackers will need to pass a background check and will be attacking a predetermined system that is not a part of critical operations.
This program is being put together by the Digital Defense Service, launched last fall.
The hack works by getting into the shared memory of a user's smartphone with malicious software disguised as an apparently normal app.
By monitoring the shared memory, the researchers could see when a user was operating apps such as Gmail, providing a window to steal passwords and login details.
We know that there's no such thing as a completely secure computer system.
A much more efficient approach would be to hack into a surveillance
system that already has access to the nformation.
Far better to hack
into the NSA spying system at Google, or at Facebook, or at Microsoft
(if such an NSA system exists, of course).
The NSA.
[Google to enlist NSA to help it ward off cyberattacks.]
This puzzled me tremendously, why would Google, with its enormous brain trust of the world's top computer experts call on the NSA?
Why didn't Google have the means, the expertise, to deal with this problem directly and solely?
It makes sense if it was the NSA's spying system that got hacked within Google.
The search giant knows its own systems and how they can be protected but it doesn't know the NSA's computer systems and how they protect themselves.
It makes perfect sense to call in the NSA to help plug this hole because it's a hole created for the NSA which the NSA might have left vulnerable in some way.
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