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DARPA is working on an open source, secure e-voting system
2019-03-18 12:35

The US Government is working on an electronic voting system that it hopes will prevent people from tinkering with voting machines at the polls.

DARPA Is Developing an Open-Source Voting System
2019-03-14 18:20

This sounds like a good development: ...a new $10 million contract the Defense Department's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has launched to design and build a secure voting...

What comes after air gaps? DARPA asks world for ideas
2019-02-11 11:42

According to DARPA, air gapping computers and data is a security idea that has run its course and urgently needs to be replaced.

DARPA uses a remote island to stage a cyberattack on the US power grid
2018-11-15 11:29

It enacted a worst-case, "black start" scenario: swaths of the country's grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted.

BAE Systems to develop automated cyber defense tools for DARPA
2018-08-10 20:33

The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected BAE Systems to develop data-driven, cyber-hunting tools that detect and analyze cyber threats to help protect enterprise...

DARPA takes aim at deepfake forgeries
2018-08-09 12:55

DARPA's MediaFor project has come up with tools it says can spot AI-created fakes.

DARPA Wants Research into Resilient Anonymous Communications
2018-07-26 11:04

DARPA is funding research into resilient anonymous communications systems....

DARPA Funding in AI-Assisted Cybersecurity
2018-04-10 11:11

DARPA is launching a program aimed at vulnerability discovery via human-assisted AI. The new DARPA program is called CHESS (Computers and Humans Exploring Software Security), and they're holding a...