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Hackers Find 65 Bugs In The Pentagon’s Travel Management System – United States
The Defense Department’s fifth bug bounty awards $80,000 for spotting security holes in a travel system used by millions of the agency’s employees. Ethical hackers exposed more than 60 cybersecurity holes in an enterprise system used by millions of Defense Department employees to organize travel plans. The vulnerabilities within the Defense Travel System were uncovered during the Pentagon’s fifth bug bounty program, Hack the DTS, which ran from April 1 to April 29. The 19 participants won nearly $80,000 in bounties after spotting 65 unique bugs, 28 of which were deemed highly severe or critical. This included eight vulnerabilities worth $5,000 apiece. “Securing sensitive information for millions of government employees and contractors is no easy task,” said Reina Staley, chief of staff and co-founder of the Defense Digital Service, in a statement. “No system is infallible, and this assessment was the first time we employed a crowd-sourced approach to improve the security aspect of DTS.” Defense employees use DTS to authorize, reserve and receive reimbursements for work-related travel. The system processes more than 25,000 transactions every day.
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Belgian Attack That Left 3 Dead Considered ‘Terrorist Murder,’ Officials Say
An attack in Belgium that left two police officers and a bystander dead was considered to be a “terrorist murder,” officials said Wednesday. Benjamin Herman, 36, shouted “Allahu Akbar,” the Arabic phrase for “God is great,” several times during the shooting spree Tuesday before he was fatally shot by a group of police officers, Wenke Roggen, the Belgian federal magistrate, said at a news conference. The convict was a “soldier of the caliphate,” the Islamic State terror network said in a brief statement on the site of its Aamaq news agency. Such wording is typical of the claims ISIS makes even when slaying suspects have not been linked directly to the terror group. Belgian officials have not said whether they had evidence the inmate had vowed allegiance to ISIS or was acting on its orders. The attack was being treated as terrorism because of the way Herman acted during the shooting, Roggen said, adding that it resembled the Islamic State group’s calls to attack police with knives and steal their weapons, included the shouting of “Allahu Akbar” and Herman was in contact with several radicalized individuals.
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More Nicaragua Protesters killed in Mother’s Day March – Nicaragua
Hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets of Nicaragua’s capital calling on President Daniel Ortega to resign in the latest and largest anti-government protest in decades. The Mother’s Day march in Managua on Wednesday was organized in solidarity with the mothers of students and peaceful demonstrators who have been killed by police and pro-government forces since the start of a nationwide political crisis on April 18. At least three more protesters were killed, and several others wounded as anti-Ortega demonstrations continued and anger grew in the Latin American nation. Just before sundown, masked gunmen opened fire on a group of demonstrators at the National University of Engineering. Dozens of people, including women, children and students, took shelter for several hours in the Central American University campus because of the attacks, rights group Amnesty International said. With the latest fatalities, the number of people killed since the start of the unrest has climbed to at least 87, according to activists. Almost 900 have been wounded.
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