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DARPA's $4M Cyber-Threat Clash Down To Seven Challengers
coondoggie writes: When it began a year ago, there were 104 teams competing for $4 million in prize money in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)'s ambitious tournament — known as the Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) — to see who can build the best fully automatic network defense system. This week DARPA said that after a couple dry runs and a significant qualifying event the field of CGC teams is down to seven who will now compete in the final battle slated to take place at DEFCON in Las Vegas in August 2016.
I remember back in the late '90s (when I was playing junior football with Moses) when the knee-jerk industry reaction to malware was to stop funding any sort of "active" defence systems development. True the old ping of death doesn't work anymore (it was a fun anti-cracker defence until the ISP put an end to it - a bit like burglars suing when they slip on your shiny floor and hurt themselves). I can think of a few interesting alternatives though, but I might just stick with the standard re-direct to an interesting picture for the time being given our silly "cyber-crime" laws.