Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “Darpa’s Autonomous Cyber Defense Systems”, 2) “ShmooCon 2014 & Firetalk Videos Posted on You…
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DARPA’s Autonomous Cyber Defense Systems
DARPA is putting out a call for participation in their Cyber Grand Challenge. So far 35 teams have signed up. My prediction … fail. Any solution they create will work well against automated attacks … just not human ones. Or…
DARPA Cyber Chief Moves to Google
In case you missed this news … former L0pht member and DARPA Cyber Fast Track founder Peiter “Mudge” Zatka is leaving government for the next step in his career … at Google. Last week he announced his new gig on…
Weekly Rewind – NIST NVD, Hacker Game, Teaching Kids Infosec & More…
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “Teaching Kids about Infosec”, 2) “Hacker – An Old School Hackers Card Game”, and…
Last Call for DARPA Cyber Fast Track Program
Just in case you missed it last week, the groundbreaking DARPA Cyber Fast Track (CFT) research program is coming to an end. 🙁 Out of the 400 submitted proposals so far, they have granted 101 stipends. In the end this…
Weekly Rewind – Petraeus, ITU DPI, NMap & More…
Welcome to another edition of our Weekly Rewind – where we summarize all our posts from the last week. The top stories this week were 3) “New Version of Nmap Released”, 2) “ITU DPI Document Leaked”, and 1) “4 Steps…
DARPA’s New Program Threatens Supply Chain Vulnerabilities
The Department of Defense (DoD) announced a new program aimed at what is becoming a growing trend in the IT industry called “purchased technology” – hardware or software that manufacturers or resellers can reprogram to infiltrate sensitive, top-secret information. Also…
Open Source != Secure
I just finished reading Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez and so this article mentioning creating open source software to stop droneware from being hacked caught my attention. This $18 million four and a half year project, part of DARPA’s High-Assurance…
Who’s Gonna Take the First Shot?
We’ve introduced Plan X before with it’s cyberwar research intentions. And as we discussed later, there’s been an overwhelming response from industry and academia. So much so that DARPA postponed a planned industry day in September until October and expanded…
‘Plan X’ Proposers’ Day Workshop Delayed
A few weeks ago we published an article on Darpa’s ‘Plan X’ program and in that we mentioned the Proposers’ Day Workshop. Unfortunately, it has been postponed … but that’s good we guess as there’s so much interest in it…