DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge Heads to DefCon

Typically, a hacking tournament is made up of humans attempting to exploit code and applications, but that’s not the case for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC). The CGC occurs on Aug. 4 at the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas and will see seven different autonomous computing systems compete in what is being billed as the world’s first all-machine hacking tournament.