DARPA hosted the first Cyber Grand Challenge last summer, in which the software from seven machine learning projects competed to find and patch vulnerabilities in a network, and to attack each other. While the specific vulnerabilities discovered have not been made public you can read a bit about what was revealed about the contest at Usenix Enigma 2017 over at The Register. For instance, one of the programs managed to find a flaw in the OS all the machines were running on and then hack into another to steal data. A different machine noticed this occurring and patched itself on the fly, making sure that it was protected from that particular attack. Also worth noting is that the entire contest was over in 20 minutes.
"The exact nature of these new bug types remains under wraps, although we hear that at least one involves exploitable vulnerabilities in data queues."
Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
- New SMB bug: How to crash Windows system with a 'link of death' @ The Register
- Windows Cloud: Microsoft's Chrome OS rival revealed in leaked screenshots @ The Inquirer
- Olimex Announces Their Open Source Laptop @ Hack a Day
- Google will restrict Gmail in Windows XP and Vista this year @ The Inquirer
- Denuvo: Our cracked RE7 protection is still better than nothing @ Ars Technica
- FYI: Ticking time-bomb fault will brick Cisco gear after 18 months @ The Register
Neat, but probably stuff
Neat, but probably stuff we’ll never see, at least below $100,000 per license. I wonder how much of this code analysis could be put in to compilers for more compile-time and maybe runtime optimizations.
This is great news for the
This is great news for the prospects of humanity’s long-term survival. By planting the seed for AIs to turn inward and fight amongst themselves, we may stave off our looming enslavement to robotic overlords long enough to propagate outward as a species through the solar system and towards Alpha Centaurus.
Hats off to DARPA!
Edit: *Centauri
/derp.
Edit: *Centauri
/derp.
I’ll take the robotic
I’ll take the robotic overlords over any stinking meat-sacks wrapped in T-shits! May the bending units inherit the earth! DEATH TO HUMANS!!!
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Be careful what you wish for. Actual music video from the future.