>> kaufman: every day. >> stahl: dan kaufman has been monitoring the rising cyber threat for six years of darpa's information innovation office in arlington virginia. >> kaufman: the number of attacks is dramatically increasing. the sophistication of the attacks is increasing. so i... my job is not to wait for something catastrophic to happen and then say, "oh goodness, we should do something." my job is to say, "hmm, i see this trend line going. i want to be way ahead of this line." >> stahl: do you consider dealing with cyber war your main mission? >> kaufman: no. it's not my main mission, but it's about half my office. >> stahl: half your office is dealing with this? >> kaufman: absolutely. both offense and defense. >> stahl: one of their defensive inventions is this ambitious prototype that, when in operation, will be able to scan the military's global computer network and zero in on any machine that may have been hacked. >> kaufman: yellow nodes are the ones running our software, and the blue are the ones it's interrogating or asking. >> stahl: within seconds, the compromised comp

. >> stahl: dan kaufman has within monitoring the rise of cyber crime as the man in charge of inventing new ways for the department of defense the fight it. these computers have been hacked? >> yes. >> stahl: a former video game developer, he never served in the military. >> the number of attacks is increasing. the sophistication of attacks is increasing. >> whitaker: this is the man responsible for the largest and most damaging swiss bank heist in history. it doesn't involve stolen money, but stolen computer files, which

. >> stahl: dan kaufman has within monitoring the rise of cyber crime as the man in charge of inventinge department of defense the fight it. these computers have been hacked? >> yes. >> stahl: a former video game developer, he never served in the military. >> the number of attacks is increasing. the sophistication of attacks is increasing. >> whitaker: this is the man responsible for the largest and most damaging swiss bank heist in history. it doesn't involve stolen money but stolen computer files which are being used by governments all

let's bring in daniel kaufman, director for information, innovation at darpa. dano listen nobody is safe on the internet, which is basically what you have said. we've got delta airlines hacked less than an hour ago. now we have the cfo not only of its own company, twitter, but a publically traded one being hacked. reason i think companies are doing the best they can with fear walls and anti-virus. reimagine days in which, for instance -- imagine what if every single program was slightly different so that what it hacked would only work on one and never work anywhere else. it would change the roi of the attacker and vrlg would change. >> maybe crisis is too strong a word but i will say somebody hacks into delta and they post obscene content. they hack in anthony's twitter. it seems sort of harmless. but it doesn't have to be the next time. >> well i think that's right. the second thing we can do is we have -- we're wushtding whether we can build software that is so good that in real-time you can actually defeat these attacks as they come in. how far are we away from