A new bug bounty program intended to find vulnerabilities in the Marine Corps’ public-facing websites will be the DOD's sixth such program.

The automotive industry is looking to step up its collaboration with cybersecurity researchers to identify software and hardware bugs after a watershed 2015 hacking demo.

The highest bounty was $5,000 paid out eight times.

Because the Defense Travel System is used by millions of people and maintains sensitive information, hardening its security is a priority for DoD, organizers said.

Add up all the U.S. military's bug bounty programs and over 3,000 vulnerabilities have been found in federal government systems.

"The bug was filed on Christmas Eve, and within 12 hours the Shopify team rolled out a fix to address the immediate issue."