
DARPA awarded GrammaTech, Inc. a contract to develop technology to detect Denial-of-Service (DoS) and other cyber security vulnerabilities, the company said on Thursday.The technology, which detects vulnerabilities based on space and time complexities of the code, is planned to work within DARPA's Space/Time Analysis for Cybersecurity (STAC) program. GrammaTech, working with DARPA, is set to identify two types of vulnerabilities. The first type, Algorithmic Complexity Vulnerabilities, allows an attacker to create inputs that can cause excessive resource consumption. This is…