"JPL Creates World's Largest PDF Archive to Aid Malware Research"
NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) is known for landing rovers on Mars, investigating the solar system with robotic probes, and developing sensitive scientific tools that observe Earth and other planets. However, the lab's innovative work in the digital realm is less well-known. As part of a larger effort to make the Internet more secure, JPL data scientists have developed the largest publicly available open-source archive of PDFs. The new PDF corpus is part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Safe Documents (SafeDocs) program, which aims to combat online threats while anticipating PDF users' security needs. By collaborating with the non-profit PDF Association, which aims to establish open specifications and standards for the technology, JPL is helping in the development of multiple tools to address these issues. This article continues to discuss JPL data scientists amassing 8 million PDFs that can now be used for further study in order to make the Internet more secure.