Well, at least you won’t get arrested if you try to hack into a government system in this instance. Texas-based tech company Fathom5 launched a hackathon called HACKtheMACHINE. The event, backed and funded by the US Navy, aims to give lone hackers and small startups a chance to get military contracts by hacking the Navy’s cybersystems. Digital Trends has more details:
“When you look at [the cybersecurity landscape today], you have Advanced Persistent Threats — APT — which is kind of like cyber community speak for Russian and Chinese hacking that’s state-funded,” Staples told Digital Trends. “These are potential competitors in the global landscape who are actively funding offensive cyber teams. We have to be proactively thinking about how we’re going to defend against that. We’ve seen Russia use cyber as a precursor to kinetic operations a couple of times, including the invasion of Ukraine [and] Crimea. I don’t think there’s been a future battle that doesn’t either begin with cyber or is enabled by cyber, even if it’s just as a way to conduct espionage.”
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Sorry I'm not good at hacking. I can barely do graphic design.
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