NSF Awards $74.5 Million To Support Interdisciplinary Cybersecurity Research (nsf.gov)

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday October 7, 2015 @09:35PM from the getting-paid dept.

aarondubrow writes: The National Science Foundation announced $74.5 million in grants for basic research in cybersecurity. Among the awards are projects to understand and offer reliability to cryptocurrencies; invent technologies to broadly scan large swaths of the Internet and automate the detection and patching of vulnerabilities; and establish the science of censorship resistance by developing accurate models of the capabilities of censors. According to NSF, long-term support for fundamental cybersecurity research has resulted in public key encryption, software security bug detection, spam filtering and more.

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"broadly scan large swaths of the internet" by vikingpower · 2015-10-07 21:46 · Score: 2

Harmless, bro. Absolutely harmless. What could go fucking wrong ?

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NSF/NSA same same by Virtucon · 2015-10-08 00:13 · Score: 2

Once you understand how to make it more "secure" you know where the holes are to break into it.

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