Security News

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...

Open sourced: Cyber reasoning system that won third place in DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge (Help Net Security)
2016-08-22 18:18

Earlier this month, the DARPA-backed Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) has shown that a future in which computer systems will (wholly or partially) replace bug hunters and patchers looms near. Now, the...