Three Purdue University researchers and their teammates at the University of California, Santa Barbara and Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne have received a DARPA grant to fund research that will improve the process of patching code in vulnerable embedded systems. “Many embedded systems, like computer systems running in trucks, airplanes and medical devices, run old code for which the source code and the original compilation toolchain are unavailable,” Antonio Bianchi, assistant professor of computer science at Purdue University said.

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