According to the BBC, the US research agency Darpa (Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency) has brought software engineers together to tackle what it considers to be “grand challenges”. One of them is a new automated programme (or robot hacker) which would be able to find and seal vulnerabilities before malicious hackers find them out; a huge step from what is currently being done.

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