'Mayhem' program wins grand hacking challenge

5th August 2016
 
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A program named Mayhem has provisionally won a competition in Las Vegas to find software that does the best job of automatically defending against cyber attacks.
 
Set up by the US Darpa research agency the competition hopes to spur interest in autonomous security systems.
 
Mayhem's creators will get $2m (£1.52m) to continue their work and make their creation more effective.
 
Results will be confirmed on Friday at 10:00 local time (17:00 GMT).
 
Dubbed the Cyber Grand Challenge, the event was held at the Def Con hacker conference.
 
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