A look at AIxCC, or AI Cyber Challenge, a competition launched in 2023 and run by DARPA to design an AI program that scans open source code for security flaws
A look at AIxCC, or AI Cyber Challenge, a competition launched in 2023 and run by DARPA to design an AI program that scans open source code for security flaws
Computer scientists brainstorm in Pentagon-backed competition to design an AI program that scans open-source code for flaws bad actors could exploit Mastodon: @JosephMenn@infosec.exchange . Bluesky: @...
Anthropic researchers: AI models can be trained to deceive and the most commonly used AI safety techniques had little to no effect on the deceptive behaviors
[images] Abraham Samma / @abesamma@toolsforthought.social : Sleeper Agents: Training Deceptive LLMs that Persist Through Safety Training — This is some sci-fi stuff right here (even if unsurprising)...
A look at DARPA's SocialCyber, a project that combines sociology with AI to protect open-source communities and the code they create from malicious campaigns
and the people behind it all: “This is a critical infrastructure problem. We don't have a grip on it. We need to get a grip on it.” https://www.technologyreview.com/ ... Daniel Jeffries / @dan_jeffrie...
A DARPA report finds blockchains are vulnerable to “unintended centralities”, such as powerful new crypto miners, that could pervasively affect their security
The report points to a handful of, “unintended centralities,” it argues could concentrate blockchain power in the hands of a few select individuals or groups. Source: Trail of Bits .
Inside DARPA's Air Combat Evolution program, which aims to design AI that can fly a plane and engage in aerial combat without a human pilot
Sue Halpern / New Yorker : Tweets: @brandonhamber , @michaelluo , @newyorker , and @hoanssolo Tweets: Brandon Hamber / @brandonhamber : While people fight over masks and freedoms, artificial intellig...
Defcon has a prototype secure voting machine for hacking, funded by a $10M DARPA project aimed at developing an open source voting platform on secure hardware
At this year's Defcon hacking conference, Darpa brought the beginnings of what it hopes will be impervious hardware.
A look at Plum Island, a highly restricted island off the coast of New York City, where DARPA stages mock cyber attacks on the power grid every six months
- Every six months, DARPA stages mock cyber attacks a highly restricted island off the coast of New York.
As “deepfake” videos become more common and convincing, the tech will give cover to those dismissing real events as fake; DARPA researches ways to detect fakes
those manipulated videos that have grown increasingly popular and difficult to spot. Here's what you need to know: http://www.cnn.com/... http://twitter.com/... Meagan Harris / @meaganmharris : This i...
How a DARPA program is developing recovery tools that aim to restore power to an electric grid after a cyberattack
IN HIS YEARS-LONG career developing software for power grids, Stan McHann had never before heard the ominous noise that rang out last Wednesday.