How Machine Learning Affects Digital Security

You might think the computer virus is a problem of the last couple of decades, but in fact, the very first virus was devised back in 1982. It was intended primarily as a prank, and little did the inventor of Elk Cloner know what he was starting and how far computer viruses would advance in the future. At the time, the medium of transmission was infected floppy disks, but once the World Wide Web took off, so did the spread of viruses. Very quickly, in response to this, anti-virus software began to appear, led by pioneers including John McAfee and Eugene Kaspersky, names that need no introduction today. But however much ingenuity goes into combating hackers whose sole aim seems to be to cause as much disruption as possible, the hackers have always stayed at least one step ahead.