Watch: Security Researchers use Ubuntu Linux to Hack ROS-Powered Surgical Robots | Linux Today

Watch: Security Researchers use Ubuntu Linux to Hack ROS-Powered Surgical Robots

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Marius Nestor
Jul 14, 2016

There’s nothing out of the ordinary in that, but it appears that they are using computer with the popular Ubuntu Linux operating system to do part of their job, which is to make sure that these type of machines can’t be easily hacked, especially when they are used to operate on patients remotely.

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Marius Nestor

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