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Pentagon's Plan X turns cyberwarfare into a video game

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  • Posted May 28, 2013, 3:15 PM by Jesse Schoff | Filed in IT Security, Gaming
  • In an attempt to simplify the complex and often abstract world of cyberwarfare, for the past year the Pentagon has been developing a system called Plan X that essentially turns the process into a video game.

DARPA will use decoy documents to catch leaks

DARPA will use decoy documents to catch leaks
  • Posted November 8, 2011, 3:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in IT Security
  • The U.S. Department of Defense plans to discourage would-be document leakers by planting false documents, but there is a twist. These decoy documents, as they are described, sound sophisticated. The files employ a security feature which...

IBM unveils cognitive computing chips that mimic human brain

IBM unveils cognitive computing chips that mimic human brain
  • Posted August 18, 2011, 12:00 PM by Shawn Knight | Filed in Industry News
  • Fans of the 'Terminator' franchise might sleep a little uneasy tonight as IBM, teaming with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and four universities, has designed the first working computer chips modeled after the human brain. 

DARPA asks gamers to test submarine-tracking simulator

  • Posted April 7, 2011, 6:00 AM by Emil Protalinski | Filed in Gaming
  • The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the branch of the US Department of Defense responsible for the development of new military technology, wants gamers to test its submarine-tracking simulator. If you think you can best an enemy submarine commander…

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