US Government is Paying $2 Million for Automatic Hacking System

In this year’s DEF CON security conference which is scheduled to be held in Las Vegas on August, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is giving away a grand total of $4 million to all the seven teams participating in the Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC). The Cyber Grand Challenge was started in 2014. It is a classic Capture The Flag(CTF) competition, but with a kink. Here instead of making two teams of security researchers battle against each other in an attempt to hack or protect a device or network, the CGC will have seven teams that battle using automated computer programs which are built

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US Government is Paying $2 Million for Automatic Hacking System
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