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According to DARPA, air gapping computers and data is a security idea that has run its course and urgently needs to be replaced. Continue reading What comes after air gaps? DARPA asks world for ideas
Over the last 120 years, Plum Island, a forbidding swath of sand off Long Island, has been at the edge of U.S national security. The island housed gun batteries during the Spanish-American War, a torpedo storage facility during the First World War, and in recent decades it has been the government’s home for studying animal-borne diseases. In the first week of November, the military found yet another way for Plum Island to serve as a guinea pig. This time, though, it was for a decidedly 21st-century threat: cyberattacks that could hamstring the power grid. The fictional scenario saw contractors with the Pentagon’s R&D arm — the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) — team up with engineers from prominent utilities to try to restore power that had been out for weeks following a hypothetical cyberattack. Their tall task: use a generator to gradually restart the power system, substation by substation — a process known as “black start” — all […]
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It enacted a worst-case, “black start” scenario: swaths of the country’s grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted. Continue reading DARPA uses a remote island to stage a cyberattack on the US power grid
The US has been investing in genetic technology to help save its crops, but scientists fear that same technology could be unleashed on our enemies. Continue reading Scientists Fear DARPA’s ‘Insect Allies’ Will Attack Global Food Supply with Viruses
DARPA gave researchers $1.3 million to build a prototype engine that is fueled by light. Continue reading DARPA Is Researching Quantized Inertia, a Theory Many Think Is Pseudoscience
Germany’s federal government will launch a new cybersecurity research agency with funding of €200 million over the next five years, the country’s defense and interior ministers announced on Wednesday. The agency’s goal is to make Germany technologically independent of other powers with regards to cybersecurity. The country’s dependence on other nations like China or the United States has been an ongoing political issue, as Germany purchases almost all of what it needs from foreign companies and partners. “We cannot just sit around watching sensitive information technology of high security relevance being controlled by third countries,” Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said. Seehofer presented the new agency in a Wednesday press conference in Berlin alongside Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen. “We have to secure and expand those key technologies ourselves.” The agency is modeled after the United States’ Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, a Department of Defense agency responsible for the research and […]
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We all love reading about creative problem-solving work done by competitors in past DARPA robotic challenges. Some of us even have ambition to join the fray and compete first-hand instead of just reading about them after the fact. If this describes you, step on up to the DARPA Subterranean Challenge.
Following up on past challenges to build autonomous vehicles and humanoid robots, DARPA now wants to focus collective brainpower solving problems encountered by robots working underground. There will be two competition tracks: the Systems Track is what we’ve come to expect, where teams build both the hardware and software of …read more
A security researcher has revealed that police body cameras could put evidence – and even police officers themselves – at risk. Continue reading Police body cameras open to attack
DARPA’s MediaFor project has come up with tools it says can spot AI-created fakes. Continue reading DARPA takes aim at deepfake forgeries
DARPA is funding research into resilient anonymous communications systems…. Continue reading DARPA Wants Research into Resilient Anonymous Communications