{"id":24787,"date":"2016-04-18T16:47:54","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T23:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/mits-ai-can-predict-85-percent-of-cyberattacks"},"modified":"2017-04-24T21:15:06","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T04:15:06","slug":"mits-ai-can-predict-85-percent-of-cyberattacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/mits-ai-can-predict-85-percent-of-cyberattacks","title":{"rendered":"MIT\u2019s AI Can Predict 85 Percent of Cyberattacks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/b6Hf1O_vpwQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Knowing a cyberattack\u2019s going to occur before it actually happens is very useful\u2014but it\u2019s tricky to achieve in practice. Now MIT\u2019s built an artificial intelligence system that can predict attacks 85 percent of the time.<\/p>\n<p>Cyberattack spotters work in two main ways. Some are AI that simply looks out for anomalies in internet traffic. They work, but often throw up false positives\u2014warnings about a threat when actually nothing\u2019s wrong. Other software systems are built on rules developed by humans, but it\u2019s hard to create systems like that which catches every attack.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, researchers from MIT\u2019s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab built a new AI\u2014creatively named AI<sup>2<\/sup>\u2014that combines the two approaches.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/mit-s-ai-can-predict-85-percent-of-cyber-attacks-1771549072\">http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/mit-s-ai-can-predict-85-percent-of-cyber-attacks-1771549072<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowing a cyberattack\u2019s going to occur before it actually happens is very useful\u2014but it\u2019s tricky to achieve in practice. Now MIT\u2019s built an artificial intelligence system that can predict attacks 85 percent of the time. Cyberattack spotters work in two main ways. Some are AI that simply looks out for anomalies in internet traffic. They [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":384,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,418,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cybercrime-malcode","category-internet","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24787","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\/384"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42472,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24787\/revisions\/42472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}