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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

Stuxnet targets supervisory control and data acquisition systems. Instead of just targeting zero days in the Windows operating system- which it did -- it then infected Siemens Step7 systems, causing the fast-spinning centrifuges to tear themselves apart. And if they say hey, this company one of your sponsors meets that.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: DEF CON Villages

ForAllSecure

I write a monthly security column for Windows Secrets and I do a couple other things on the side. 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. I'm also a blogger@forbes.com.

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The biggest enterprise technology M&A deals of the year

CIO Business Intelligence

Microsoft has bought Minit, a developer of process mining software, to help its customers optimize business processes across the enterprise, on and off Microsoft Power Platform. NTT Data adds Vectorform to service portfolio. Qualcomm buys server chip designer to make laptops. In March, Qualcomm paid $1.4