Mayhem is a machine that can automatically detect, exploit, and patch cybersecurity vulnerabilities

ronjor · Jan 30, 2019

By Cohen Coberly 30 Jan 2019

Written by security researcher David Brumley, the report describes the rise of what might be one of the worlds' most impressive automated white-hat hacking machines. Called Mayhem, the machine is a water-cooled computing behemoth that can detect, exploit, and fix software weaknesses automatically, and at speeds that no human being can match.
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guest · Jun 1, 2020

This Bot Hunts Software Bugs for the Pentagon
Now it's used by the military—and Netflix
June 1, 2020
https://www.wired.com/story/bot-hunts-software-bugs-pentagon/

Mayhem isn’t sophisticated enough to fully replace the work of human bug finders, who use knowledge of software design, code reading skills, creativity, and intuition to find flaws. But ForAllSecure cofounder and CEO David Brumley says the tool can help human experts get more done.

Mayhem originated in an unusual 2016 hacking contest in a Las Vegas casino ballroom. Hundreds of people showed up to watch the Cyber Grand Challenge, hosted by the Pentagon’s research agency DARPA.
Last month, the Pentagon awarded ForAllSecure a $45 million contract to widen use of Mayhem across the US military. The department has plenty of bugs to find.
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Other bugs found by Mayhem include one discovered earlier this year in the OpenWRT software used in millions of networking devices. Last fall, two interns at the company scored a payout from Netflix’s bug bounty program after they used Mayhem to find a flaw in software that lets people send video from their phone to a TV.
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