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Senate passes DHS bug bounty bill

April 20, 2018

Via: FCW

The Department of Homeland Security is one step closer to launching a bug bounty pilot.

The Senate passed legislation April 17 that compels DHS to establish a bug bounty program. Sponsored by Sens. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.), Rob Portman (R-Ohio), Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) and Kamala Harris (D-Calif.), the bill was introduced last year and authorizes $250,000 for DHS to contract with an outside organization to run the program, which would pay security researchers for finding undiscovered flaws and vulnerabilities in DHS systems and software.

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