DARPA’s plan to make software security “the domain of machines”

Bugs like Heartbleed and Shellshock can sit unobserved in critically important software for years. The answer, according to DARPA, is intelligent software that fixes buggy programs while we sleep. Is it time to welcome our new robot guardians?

DARPA dissects Twitter, Facebook, Reddit to extract propaganda how-to’s

The internet found out last week that Facebook’s been dissecting us. Now, it looks like DARPA’s been at it too, with research on users of Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Pinterest, Kickstarter and Digg.

‘Hack-proof’ drone revealed by Pentagon

The Pentagon’s research arm – the Defense Advance Research Project Agency (DARPA) – has unveiled a new drone which it claims to have built with secure software that can prevent control and navigation of the aircraft by hackers.