Bangladesh, June 21 -- Canberra, June 21 (Xinhua/UNB) -- A team from Australia's peak science agency has developed a world-first technique to protect algorithms against cyber-attacks.

Researchers from Data61, the data and digital arm of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), said on Thursday that the "vaccine" is a significant advancement in machine learning research.

Algorithms can perform given tasks such as diagnose diseases from x-rays and identify spam emails but are vulnerable to adversarial attacks, a form of cyber-attack whereby malicious data causes them to malfunction.

Richard Nock, leader of the machine learning group at Data61, said that adversarial attacks work by adding a layer of noise ...