With the Drama But Not the Bruises, Hacking Becomes a Spectator Sport
DARPA staged the world's first live computer-versus-computer hacking competition in which teams battled for a multimillion dollar purse in front of thousands of cheering fans in Las Vegas.
Sara Sorcher and Jeff Stone | August 5, 2016
The night before the DEF CON hacker conference began here, seven supercomputers went head-to-head in a kind of Olympics for cybersecurity. The Cyber Grand Challenge, sponsored by the military’s futuristic research arm – the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency – was the world’s first all-machine hacking tournament.
"Cybercasters" who channeled Monday Night Football announcers delivered the play-by-play commentary for the crowd of 5,000 spectators.
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| Cyber Grand Challenge, Las Vegas. Source: http://www.popsci.com/machines-win-darpas-cyber-grand-challenge |
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| "“Mayhem” Declared Preliminary Winner of Historic Cyber Grand Challenge. Automated system outperforms competing machines in high-stakes final event aimed at revolutionizing software vulnerability detection and patching." Source: http://www.darpa.mil/news-events/2016-08-04 |
<more at http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Passcode/Security-culture/2016/0805/With-the-drama-but-not-the-bruises-hacking-becomes-a-spectator-sport; related articles and links: https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/05/carnegie-mellons-mayhem-ai-takes-home-2-million-from-darpas-cyber-grand-challenge/ (Carnegie Mellon’s Mayhem AI takes home $2 million from DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge. August 5, 2016) and http://www.popsci.com/machines-win-darpas-cyber-grand-challenge (+Video) (DARPA's Cyber Grand Challenge Ends in Triumph. A machine named Mayhem took home the $2 million price. August 5, 2016)>
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