In a first for the #US Air Force's new information warfare entity, the service inked patent license agreements with the private sector for code it developed in house to detect #software #vulnerabilities. Software, called Whiddler, scans files on a network and calculates the probability of whether a file is malicious. It looks for suspicious items that don't have a signature and therefore might escape #antivirus software that scans for known problematic signatures. With the technology transferred to a third party, the government can choose whether its wants to adopt improvements to the code that the companies make. The companies can modify and improve the code and sell it to #industry, making the larger community more secure, officials said. #malware #cyber #threats
