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From The Blog. If the Front Door Can’t Keep Attackers Out, Maybe Putting Locks on Every Inside Door Can Help. We Talk to Elisity About One Way to Do This. By Sean Kalinich. Sep 03.
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The UEFI (Unified Extensible Framework Interface) was the replacement for the old BIOS (Basic Input Output System). It was intended as an improvement to the underlying systems on a motherboard (also called mainboard) the motherboard controls communication between all components connected to it from CPUs, to memory, to GPUs, disk or solid-state drives, network cards… you get the picture.
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Minecraft is set at a default of around 512 MB of RAM allocated to it, as this is the default set by Java. This is plenty for some activities in the game, but can result in poor performance on certain systems, especially during prolonged play, as the game will attempt to cache data on the hard drive of your computer once the RAM usage hits a certain percent.
Editorials - DecryptedTech
One of the most frustrating things is to sit in on a C-Suite meeting and hear the lofty strategic goals presented for the company and for cybersecurity only to have them torn to pieces when you explain what those goals will actually take and cost.
Intel Investigating MSI Data Breach and Private Code
Yesterday we reported on a ransomware attack that impacted PC and component manufacturer MSI. When they, MSI, disclosed the attack they claimed there was no significant impact, but failed to consider that most, if not all, modern ransomware attacks also incorporate exfiltration techniques to ensure a ransom is paid.
CPUs - decryptedtech.com
Translating Tech into plain english. Intel has been enjoying a rather successful few years. After the launch of their first generation Core processors Intel managed to slide neatly by AMD who had been running rings around the Pentium 4 CPU.
Shows and Events - DecryptedTech
Black Hat 2017, Las Vegas, NV - When an attacker gains a foothold in a network the first thing they need to do is learn the lay of the land. They have done some research on the target to gather information about possible systems they might encounter.
When is encryption not encryption? When it is faked.
In the war against (yes against) encryption there are many things to hide behind. One of the most frequently used is that criminals will use it to mask their dastardly deeds. The term criminal is, of course interchangeable with just about any other popular …
Security Talk - DecryptedTech
Black Hat 2024 – Las Vegas. In infrastructure design there used to be a philosophy of putting components in silos (segmenting them). This was not really done for security, but more to limit impacts across an organization or environment.
DEC Helped To Make Both AMD And Intel What They Are Today, …
DEC had a CPU that at the time was simply amazing. To make matters worse it was a 667MHz CPU that was able to run rings around both Intel’s and AMD’s 1GHZ CPUs. There were multiple reasons for this but the most under rated one was the efficient caching structure. The DEC Alpha processor was light years ahead of most CPUs on the market at ...