Spy vs Spy: Cyber Warfare Goes Automated

Cyber warfare is tougher to combat, or even detect; so engineers are turning to artificial intelligence and adversarial machine learning to identify and contain intruders.

Wilson da Silva
Nov 1 · 8 min read
United States Cyber Command control room (Joseph Eddins/U.S. Department of Defence)

THERE’S A WAR ON in cyberspace. Every day, thousands of attacks are mounted against computers and networks…

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Wilson da Silva

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Australian feature writer best known for his work on science, technology and the future. Former editor of COSMOS magazine (wilsondasilva.com)

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