The Pentagon unveiled that last year it received more vulnerability disclosure reports from ethical hackers than ever. The Defense Department’s Cyber Crime Center (DC3) released numbers from its Vulnerability Disclosure Program, showing the agency processed 4,013 vulnerability reports, 2,836 of which led to mitigation activities. According to a statement, 8% of all submissions were labelled as critical or high severity, CyberScoop reports. [Read: Pentagon unveils toothless ethical principles for using AI in war] “It was our busiest year to date with a staggering 21.7% increase of submitted reports from 2017,” the report reads. The program, which invites security researchers to poke…
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