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A supercomputer is taking on humans in a hacking contest at DEF CON

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Can a supercomputer beat humans in a hacking contest? We’re about to find out.

For the first time, a fully automated supercomputer is trying to compete with humans in a major hacking contest, and so far the machine is hanging in there.

The supercomputer, known as Mayhem, is among the teams taking part in this year’s Capture the Flag contest at the DEF CON security conference in Las Vegas.

The game involves detecting vulnerabilities in software and patching them, and humans have been playing it at DEF CON for years.

Now computers are getting in on the act. DARPA, a U.S. defense agency, recently held an all-machine competition, awarding $ 2 million to the team that did best.

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Area students win in BVU computer security contest – The Storm Lake Times

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Area students win in BVU computer security contest
The Storm Lake Times
Students from the Buena Vista University computer science department competed against each other and students from three additional schools during BVU's fourth annual virtual Capture the Flag computer security contest on Saturday, April 16.

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Pwn2Own contest highlights renewed hacker focus on kernel issues

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Hackers demonstrated 21 new vulnerabilities in attacks against browsers and operating systems during this year’s Pwn2Own hacking contest. The complexity of the exploits, though, shows that hackers have to jump through many hoops to gain full system control.

On Wednesday and Thursday, five contestants — four teams and one independent researcher — demonstrated three successful remote code execution attacks against Safari on OS X, two against Microsoft Edge on Windows, four against Adobe Flash on Windows and one partially successful attack against Google Chrome on Windows. Firefox was not a target in this year’s contest.

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All major browsers hacked in Pwn2Own contest; hacker gets $225,000 in prize money

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“On Thursday, South Korean security researcher and serial browser hacker JungHoon Lee, known online as lokihardt, single-handedly popped Internet Explorer 11 and Google Chrome on Microsoft Windows, as well as Apple Safari on Mac OS X,” Constantin reports.
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