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IARPA wants to use psychology to thwart cyber hackers

IARPA wants to use psychology to thwart cyber hackers

Released Tuesday, 25th April 2023
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IARPA wants to use psychology to thwart cyber hackers

IARPA wants to use psychology to thwart cyber hackers

IARPA wants to use psychology to thwart cyber hackers

IARPA wants to use psychology to thwart cyber hackers

Tuesday, 25th April 2023
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A new Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency project is looking to use psychology to thwart would-be hackers. Many cyber attacks these days use basic human psychology to get people to click on a link, for example, as part of a "phishing" exploit. But IARPA thinks it can flip that paradigm on its head and embed the "cognitive biases" of hackers into network defenses. For an overview of the effort, I spoke with Dr. Kimberly Ferguson-Walter, the program manager for IARPA's Reimagining Security with Cyberpsychology-Informed Network Defenses (ReSCIND) program.

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