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DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge: Expanded Highlights from the Final Event



‘Mayhem’ wins $2M first prize in DARPA Cyber Grand Challenge

Cyber-reasoning platform Mayhem pulled down the $ 2 million first prize in a DARPA-sponsored Cyber Grand Challenge competition that pitted entrants against each other in the classic hacking game Capture the Flag, never before played by programs running on supercomputers.

A team from Carnegie Mellon University spin-out All Secure entered Mayhem in the competition against six other programs played in front of thousands in the ballroom of the Paris hotel in Las Vegas. Most of the spectators were in town for the DEF CON hacker conference starting Friday at the same site.

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The Sony Hackers Were Causing Mayhem Years Before They Hit the Company – WIRED


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The Sony Hackers Were Causing Mayhem Years Before They Hit the Company
WIRED
Using the Sony malware as a starting point, a number of researchers have traced connections between that hack and a constellation of other attacks that they say can be attributed to a team of hackers they're calling the Lazarus Group. The hacking group

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Cyberwarfare’s vast potential for mayhem – The Japan Times


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Cyberwarfare's vast potential for mayhem
The Japan Times
WASHINGTON – We journalists often have mixed feelings about what we report and write. Naturally, we like to see our reporting vindicated by events or other reporting. This makes us feel prescient. Still, we often feel bad, because what we've reported
Perils of cyber warfare have vast implicationsThe Register-Guard

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