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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Vamosi: And a lot of these systems do not use the familiar Linux Mac Windows operating systems. So these are all embedded systems fronting some kind of archtops or real time operating system. Ransomware is malicious computer code that blocks and owners access to their computer network until a ransom gets paid.

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What is the best blockchain for smart contracts and why?

Dataconomy

They are digital agreements that run on a blockchain network and can facilitate, verify, or enforce the negotiation or performance of a contract. Public blockchains Public blockchains are open and decentralized networks that anyone can join and participate in.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

Van Norman: We get people all over from students and academia we get controls people that work on the control systems engineers and technicians who want to learn more about security. We get the InfoSec people that that were on enterprise systems. For example, I have a laptop and it runs Linux so I can get into network security.