{"id":108452,"date":"2020-06-09T14:47:11","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/darpa-invites-hackers-to-break-hardware-to-make-it-more-secure"},"modified":"2020-06-09T14:47:11","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T21:47:11","slug":"darpa-invites-hackers-to-break-hardware-to-make-it-more-secure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/06\/darpa-invites-hackers-to-break-hardware-to-make-it-more-secure","title":{"rendered":"DARPA invites hackers to break hardware to make it more secure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/darpa-invites-hackers-to-break-hardware-to-make-it-more-secure2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more than two years, the Pentagon\u2019s research arm has been working with engineers to beef up the security of computer chips before they get deployed in weapons systems or other critical technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Now, the research arm \u2014 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) \u2014 is turning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberscoop.com\/tag\/hardware\/\">hardware<\/a> over to elite white-hat hackers who can earn up to $25,000 for bugs they find. The goal is to throw an array of attacks at the hardware so its foundations are more secure before production.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need the researchers to really roll their sleeves up and dig into what we\u2019re doing and try to break it,\u201d said Keith Rebello, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cyberscoop.com\/tag\/darpa\/\">DARPA<\/a> program manager. Hardware hacks often involve identifying vulnerabilities in how a computer chip handles information, like the <a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/information-technology\/2020\/03\/5-years-of-intel-cpus-and-chipsets-have-a-concerning-flaw-thats-unfixable\/\">flaw<\/a> uncovered in Intel microprocessors in March that could have allowed attackers to run malicious code early in the boot process.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For more than two years, the Pentagon\u2019s research arm has been working with engineers to beef up the security of computer chips before they get deployed in weapons systems or other critical technologies. Now, the research arm \u2014 the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) \u2014 is turning the hardware over to elite white-hat hackers [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108452","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108452"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108452\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}