DARPA Selects Xint to Use AI in Securing Military Messaging Apps

The AIxCC competition winner will analyze messaging app code and compiled binaries for vulnerabilities, with technology that could also help commercial customers secure their software.
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Motorola’s Password Pill Was Just One Idea

Let’s face it; remembering a bunch of passwords is the pits, and it’s just getting worse as time goes on. These days, you really ought to have a securely-generated key-smash …read more Continue reading Motorola’s Password Pill Was Just One Idea→

Bugcrowd acquires Mayhem Security to advance AI-powered security testing

Mayhem, which won the 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge, will have all its employees join Bugcrowd.

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DOJ, Georgia Tech affiliate company settle over alleged failure to meet DOD contract cyber requirements

The company agreed to pay $875,000, with neither side conceding to the other as part of resolving the suit.

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Workado settles with FTC over allegations it inflated its AI detectors’ capabilities 

Workado publicly claimed its AI content detector could accurately determine whether a piece of text was generated by AI in 98% of cases. The FTC said its “no better than a coin flip.”

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Buttercup: Open-source AI-driven system detects and patches vulnerabilities

Buttercup is a free, automated, AI-powered platform that finds and fixes vulnerabilities in open-source software. Developed by Trail of Bits, it recently earned second place in DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC). Main components Buttercup is made up of… Continue reading Buttercup: Open-source AI-driven system detects and patches vulnerabilities→

The overlooked changes that two Trump executive orders could bring to cybersecurity

Good, bad, puzzling — a March order and June order could have bigger ripples than realized when the president signed them.

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DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge reveals winning models for automated vulnerability discovery and patching

The initiative seeks to patch vulnerabilities in open-source code before they are exploited by would-be attackers. Now comes the hard part — putting the systems to the test in the real world.

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GOP domestic policy bill includes hundreds of millions for military cyber

Democrats have critiqued the bill for not protecting funds for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.

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