DARPA, as expected, is coming up with many new and inventive ways of trying to rethink the cyber security challenges that DOD is plagued with. First they have developed a series of free computer and mobile app based games that, while seemingly innocuous, are actually providing algorithms for solving basic programming vulnerabilities. DARPA is also looking to shift the established system of cyberwarfare practices residing predominantly in the hands of technical experts to a mass-production type operation. This transition project is detailed in Wired’s article This Pentagon Project Makes Cyberwar as Easy as Angry Birds. Bob Dylan was right, “the times they are a-changin”.

– by Ben Volcsko, Research Assistant