The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is inviting security researchers to uncover vulnerabilities and hack into its systems, in an attempt to better protect itself from malicious attacks. The DHS says that it is launching the “Hack DHS” bug bounty program to “identify potential cybersecurity vulnerabilities within certain DHS systems and increase the Department’s cybersecurity resilience.” According to the DHS, whose Alejandro Mayorkas announced the initiative at the Bloomberg Technology Summit, “Hack DHS” will have three phases:

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