call him "darpa dan," and he says it's only right that the agency that brought us the internet find are it. how common are attacks, cyber- attacks, against the u.s. military? >> dan kaufman: it's common. >> stahl: it's common. a lot? >> kaufman: oh, yeah. >> stahl: every day? >> kaufman: every day. >> stahl: dan kaufman has been monitoring the rising cyber threat for six years as the head 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