Pentagon looking into creating digital DNA to identify hackers

Recently the Pentagon simulated cyberattacks against the country cyber grid and found the enemy had the advantage of stealth, anonymity and unpredictability. This is why DARPA is looking into creating a digital DNA for the internet in order to identify more easily the source of the attacks. Wired

One of the trickiest problems in cyber security is trying to figure who’s really behind an attack. Darpa, the Pentagon agency that created the Internet, is trying to fix that, with a new effort to develop the “cyber equivalent of fingerprints or DNA” that can identify even the best-cloaked hackers.[...]

It’s the kind of problem Darpa will try to solve with its “Cyber Genome” project. The idea “is to produce revolutionary cyber defense and investigatory technologies for the collection, identification, characterization, and presentation of properties and relationships from collected digital artifacts of software, data, and/or users,” the agency announced late Monday.