DARPA Invites Geeks to Convert Everyday Objects into Deadly Weapons

Do you know that your daily household items can be turned into deadly weapons? Yes, it's possible to convert some of your everyday household appliances into explosives, weapons or surveillance devices. DARPA – the agency which does research in various fields for improving the US Military and US...

This Computer Chip Self-Destructs in 10 Seconds (On Command) to keep Secrets Safe

The Secret Messages are often designed to be destroyed without a trace. In Spy thriller movie “Mission Impossible”, every time Tom Cruise receives a secret message, the last words state - “This Tape message will self-destruct in 5 seconds”...and BOOM! There’s a sudden explosion, and smoke comes o...

DARPA Protecting Software From Reverse Engineering Through Obfuscation

Researchers with a DARPA-led team are looking into new ways to combat reverse engineering by using obfuscation to tidy up shoddy commercial and government security. Researchers with the unit, dubbed the SafeWare program, are hoping to develop new methods, bolstered by encryption, to obscure...

Cyber UL Could Become Reality Under Leadership of Hacker Mudge

UPDATE–One of the longstanding problems in security–and the software industry in general–is the lack of any universally acknowledged authority on quality and reliability. But the industry moved one step closer to making such a clearinghouse a reality this week when Peiter Zatko, a longtime...

M.I.T. Researchers Debut Integer Overflow Debugger

Students from M.I.T. have devised a new and more efficient way to scour raw code for integer overflows, the troublesome programming bugs that serve as a popular exploit vector for attackers and often lead to the crashing of systems. Researchers from the school’s Computer Science and Artificial...

DARPA Working on Provably Secure Embedded Software

DARPA is the birthplace of the network that eventually became today’s Internet, and the agency has spent the decades since it released that baby out into the world trying to find new ways defend it. That task has grown ever more complex and difficult, and now DARPA is working on a new kind of...

seL4 Secure Microkernel Made Open Source

General Dynamics C4 Systems and Australia’s Information and Communications Technology Research Centre NICTA today open sourced the code-base of a secure microkernel project known as seL4. Touted as “the most trustworthy general purpose microkernel in the world,” seL4 has previously been adapted b...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Finale Set For DEF CON 2016

DARPA’s announcement last October that it would sponsor a $2 million contest, challenging academics and security industry stalwarts to come up with an automated network defense system, has already attracted 35 entrants and a high-profile venue to stage the tournament finale. The final stage of th...

IBM developing Self-Destructing Microchips for US Defense

Science Fiction Movies always show the possible direction of the development of technology and gives us the opportunity to think about it. The U.S. Government is also trying to develop such technology that was introduced in movies like Star Trek and TERMINATOR i.e. Self destructing Network of...

DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge Offers $2M to Winners

The bug bounty continues to be turned on its ear. Microsoft began the wave of paying premium money for mitigation technologies via its Blue Hat prizes, and now DARPA has gone all-in to the tune of $2 million for the development of an automated network defense system that not only scans for and...

CrowdSource Tool Aims to Improve Automated Malware Analysis

When a new piece of malware surfaces, it’s typically analyzed eight ways from Sunday by a long list of antimalware and other security companies, government agencies, CERTs and other organizations who try to break it down and classify its capabilities. There’s a lot of duplicated effort there, and...

Hackers Demonstrate Car Hacking using a laptop

Computer geeks already knew it was possible to hack into a car's computerized systems and finally, two U.S. hackers - Charlie Miller and Chris Valasek, sponsored by the Pentagon's research facility DARPA recently demonstrated just how easy it is for malicious hackers to physically hijack a modern...

[SPF v0.1.7] Smartphone Pentest Framework - Support of the SMS shell pivot

The smartphone penetration testing framework, the result of a DARPA Cyber Fast Track project, aims to provide an open source toolkit that addresses the many facets of assessing the security posture of these devices. We will look at the functionality of the framework including information gatherin...

Mudge on the CFT

Peiter Zatko, also known as Mudge, has run the DARPA Cyber Fast Track program for the last three years, but he said that the researcher program is ending on April 1. The CFT program funded a wide range of security research projects in its time, including Charlie Miller’s NFC work and Moxie...

Groundbreaking Cyber Fast Track Research Program Ending

VANCOUVER–When Peiter Zatko, the security researcher and pioneering hacker known as Mudge, joined the federal government several years ago to help run a DARPA research program, some in the security industry wondered what effect someone with his background could have in an organization as famously...

DARPA, FIDO Alliance Join Race to Replace Passwords

Nearly everyone agrees that passwords are the bane of Internet security. For years, industry thinkers have somewhat vaguely referenced the need for Internet fingerprints capable of reliably verifing identities online. Yet here we are, it’s 2013 and passwords remain the primary means of...

DARPA Seeking Help With Targeted Attack Analysis

The networks of government agencies and the military are under constant attack from a variety of sources, and the U.S., like most other countries, relies on those networks to not just run daily operations, but to support missions around the world. In the face of those attacks, the Department of...

Cyber Attack Management Tool: Armitage

Armitage is a graphical cyber attack management tool for Metasploit that visualizes your targets, recommends exploits, and exposes the advanced capabilities of the framework. Armitage aims to make Metasploit usable for security practitioners who understand hacking but don’t use Metasploit every...

Pentagon Deploying DARPA to Wage War on Backdoors

The speculation is rampant that certain manufacturers are installing backdoors in their own products or that foreign and criminal elements are exploiting weaknesses in the supply chain to compromise IT and networking equipment somewhere between vendors and their customers. The Pentagon is trying ...

DARPA Seeks Revolution, Not Evolution, in Cyberspace Capabilities

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency DARPA, the avant-garde research and development arm of the Department of Defense – perhaps best known for its central role in the development of the Internet – is soliciting research proposals that would help the military improve its cyber battlespace...