Game Theory is an important part of the underlying strategy used by hackers when playing attack and defend Capture the Flag. It’s thinking how your opponent might respond to an event and then planning for it. Knowing when to patch and when not to was part of the winning strategy behind DARPA’s 2016 Cyber Grand Challenge, which was modeled off the DEF CON CTF.
But what happened the day after CGC at DEF CON 24? That was the day the very best human CTF hackers were invited to play against the winner of CGC, a computer reasoning system named Mayhem. This episode of The Hacker Mind starts to answer the question, can a machine really think like a hacker?
EP 25: Hacking Communities
EP 24: Hacking Biology
EP 23: Hacking APIs
EP 22: Hacking Social Media
EP 21: Hacking Ransomware
EP 20: MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations
EP 19: Hacking IoT
EP 18: Hacking Diversity
EP 17: Shellshock
EP 16: The Gentle Art of Lockpicking
EP 15: So You Want To Be A Pentester
EP 14: The Right To Repair
EP 13: Shall We Play A Game?
EP 12: Hacking Healthcare
EP 11: Hacking OpenWRT
EP 10: Hunting The Next Heartbleed
EP 09: Bug Bounty Hunters
EP 08: Hacking Voting Systems
EP 07: Hacking the Chrome Sandbox
EP 06: Hacking With Light And Sound
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