May 06, 2020

Air gap security beaten by turning PC capacitors into speakers

Researchers have poked another small hole in air gapped security by showing how the electronics inside computer power supply units (PSUs) can be turned into covert data transmission devices.

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July 19, 2019

Shapeshifting Morpheus chip aims to baffle hackers

Morpheus aims to make hacking so difficult at microprocessor level that attackers will give up long before they can do any damage.

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March 18, 2019

DARPA is working on an open source, secure e-voting system

The US Government is working on an electronic voting system that it hopes will prevent people from tinkering with voting machines at the polls.

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February 11, 2019

What comes after air gaps? DARPA asks world for ideas

According to DARPA, air gapping computers and data is a security idea that has run its course and urgently needs to be replaced.

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November 15, 2018

DARPA uses a remote island to stage a cyberattack on the US power grid

It enacted a worst-case, "black start" scenario: swaths of the country's grid offline for a month, battery backups exhausted.

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August 14, 2018

Police body cameras open to attack

A security researcher has revealed that police body cameras could put evidence - and even police officers themselves - at risk.

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August 09, 2018

DARPA takes aim at deepfake forgeries

DARPA's MediaFor project has come up with tools it says can spot AI-created fakes.

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August 15, 2016

Justice by keylogger – the biter bit! [Chet Chat Podcast 250]

Here's our latest security podcast - ransomware, bug hunting, keyloggers and a pair of cybercrime busts. Enjoy!

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August 05, 2016

Resistance is futile: DARPA’s competition to automate security

The much-anticipated DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge has taken place at DEF CON

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