DARPA wants to find the vital limitations of machine learning

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Network World Security Alert May 27, 2016 DARPA wants to find the vital limitations of machine learning That's the central question of a potential new DARPA program known as the Fundamental Limits of Learning (Fun LoL) which according to the researchers will address how the quest for the ultimate learning machine can be measured and tracked in a systematic and principled way. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Euro agencies on encryption backdoors: Create 'decryption without weakening' • IoT security is getting its own crash tests • 5 active mobile threats spoofing enterprise apps • Most CMS-run websites have obsolete software and are vulnerable to attack • Celebrity hacker Guccifer's confession gives us all a lesson in security • Up to a dozen banks are reportedly investigating potential SWIFT breaches • Google alums rollout Simility fraud-detection platform • DARPA extreme DDOS project transforming network attack mitigation White Paper: Bitsight Technologies Don't Let "Trusted" Vendors Become Cyber-Breach Enablers In a recent IDG survey of more than 260 IT managers and professionals, nearly 70% said they are extremely or very concerned about the security risks posed by third-party vendors and suppliers. Despite this awareness, relatively few companies have implemented the comprehensive vendor risk management (VRM) programs that this threat warrants. Read More ▶ Euro agencies on encryption backdoors: Create 'decryption without weakening' The two major international security agencies in Europe agree that building backdoors into encryption platforms is not the best way to go because of the collateral damage it would do to privacy and the security of communications systems. Read More ▶ IoT security is getting its own crash tests The thousands of endpoints in IoT systems may have to protect themselves against thousands of dangers. A decades-old IT lab wants to tell you if they're up to the task. Read More ▶ 5 active mobile threats spoofing enterprise apps Enterprise employees use mobile apps every day to get their jobs done, but when malicious actors start impersonating those apps, it spells trouble for IT departments everywhere. Here are 5 apps that masquerade as real apps. Read More ▶ Most CMS-run websites have obsolete software and are vulnerable to attack Many WordPress-, Joomla-, Magento- and Drupal-driven websites aren't being updated, making them susceptible to phishing exploits and malware. Read More ▶ Celebrity hacker Guccifer's confession gives us all a lesson in security A Romanian hacker known online as Guccifer pleaded guilty to hacking into 100 email and social media accounts belonging to American citizens, including former high-ranking government officials. Read More ▶ Up to a dozen banks are reportedly investigating potential SWIFT breaches Up to 12 banks have reportedly launched investigations into potential security breaches on their networks after hackers stole $81 million from the Bangladesh central bank earlier this year. Read More ▶ Google alums rollout Simility fraud-detection platform A team from Google's fraud-detection group has started up its own software as a service venture for spotting transaction fraud quickly based on rule sets but that also learns as it goes to improve its hit rate. Read More ▶ DARPA extreme DDOS project transforming network attack mitigation Researchers with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) have quickly moved to alter the way the military, public and private enterprises protect their networks from high-and low-speed distributed denial-of-service attacks with a program called Extreme DDoS Defense (XD3). 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