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Huawei tried to acquire technology from the winners of the Cyber Grand Challenge

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After seven supercomputers hacked each other on stage at a prominent cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas in August 2016, a Chinese corporation approached U.S. researchers responsible for developing the cutting-edge technology in hopes of acquiring it. The previously unreported but concentrated interest by Huawei Technologies, a company once at the center of a federal investigation and which has come under scrutiny by U.S. spy agencies, came in the form of phone calls and emails sent to select individuals involved in engineering machines that competed in the 2016 DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge. ForAllSecure, the company whose team won the challenge, was among those contacted by a representative claiming to be from Huawei. ForAllSecure ignored the advances, according to company CEO David Brumley. The decision was partially driven by a common understanding that Huawei is closely connected to the Chinese government and as such, a relationship with Huawei may negatively impact ForAllSecure’s ability to […]

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Hackaday Links: May 28, 2017

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Boeing and DARPA are building a spaceplane. Right now it’s only a press release and a few concept images, but it looks like this is an air-launched system kind of like a Tristar/Pegasus, only much higher and completely unmanned. It’s a ton and a half to low earth orbit, with a goal of 10 flights in 10 days.

Up in Albany? There’s a new hacker con happening in a few weeks. Anycon is a hacking, infosec, and cyber security conference happening June 16 & 17th in Albany, NY. The organizers of this con ([Chris], and his company Leet Cybersecurity) are …read more

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DARPA Plans To Begin Hacking Human Brains

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So [DARPA] wants to start hacking human brains, With the help of the biomedical device center at the university of Texas in Dallas. This does sound a bit crazy but DARPA does crazy. Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day with this one.

The initial plans to turn us all into mindless zombies seem to be shelved for now, however they are working on what they call Targeted Neuroplasticity Training (TNT), which they explain means using the body’s nervous system to enhance and speed up the learning process. This could be achieved by using a process known as …read more

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New DARPA program seeks cybersecurity through hardware design

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Pentagon scientists say they could stop 40 percent of current cyberattacks by producing secure computer chips, and Friday they explain how to a closed-door meeting of government contractors. The System Security Integrated Through Hardware and firmware, or SSITH, program aims “to develop hardware design tools that provide security against hardware vulnerabilities that are exploited through software in [Defense Department] and commercial electronic systems,” according to a procurement announcement, called a BAA, from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The DARPA program seeks only paradigm-shifting research: “Innovative approaches that enable revolutionary advances in science, devices, or systems. Specifically excluded is research that primarily results in evolutionary improvements to the existing state of practice,” reads the BAA. The idea is to break what SSITH program manager Linton Salmon derisively refers to as the “patch and pray” cycle of fixing vulnerabilities through software updates, even when what’s ultimately being exploited is a security weakness in the hardware. “This […]

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Hack Naked TV – August 24, 2016

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Juniper joins Cisco and Fortigate, US and Canada store were infected by malware, and DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge that ran at DEFCON.Visit http://hacknaked.tv to get all the latest episodes! http://traffic.libsyn.com/hntvaudio/Hack_Naked_TV_-_August_24_… Continue reading Hack Naked TV – August 24, 2016→