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BAE Systems receives DARPA contract to prevent vulnerabilities in electronic files
2019-12-12 04:00

BAE Systems has been awarded a contract by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to develop new cyber tools designed to help prevent vulnerabilities in electronic files that...

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...