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Uptick in Scams, Because “Holidays”
As a security practitioner, I receive perhaps more than my fair share of nefarious email. With “Black Friday” and the impending consumer rush I’ve seen an uptick in the behavior. YOU WILL LIKELY SEE A SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE BETWEEN NOW AND JANUARY 5, 2024. Here we have a pair of fairly classic “scam” emails. Both include…
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Insanely Busy
I’ve been insanely busy as of late. Between school, research, and analysis I’ve kept my plate fairly fully. The volume of data that I’m chewing through is increasing with regularity as well. One of the projects I’ve been working on in my spare cycles is called DShield Manager. It provides some automation in both deployment…
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Windows 11 Backup Strategy
Microsoft Windows 11 and Solid State storage solutions make it quite a bit easier to perform image-level backups of your computer. An image-level backup is a “kitchen sink, get everything” backup intended to allow you to restore your computer to the operating state it was in from a single image.
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Using “Find My” to locate an Apple AirTag with extreme accuracy
Using “Find My” to locate an Apple AirTag with extreme accuracy.
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Cognitive Passwords – What Are They?
Another really simple analogy for these cognitive passwords is the classic “Safe Word”. Settle down now, I’m talking about that conversation you have with your children when they reach an appropriate age, wherein you agree upon a safe word or phrase that any stranger the child has never met must repeat if they are to…
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Pit Boss Grills Scams on Facebook
Take a few extra moments to examine the source before falling for an expensive scam.
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Bootkit zero-day fix – is this Microsoft’s most cautious patch ever?
CAUTION Once the mitigation for this issue is enabled on a device, meaning the revocations have been applied, it cannot be reverted if you continue to use Secure Boot on that device. Even reformatting of the disk will not remove the revocations if they have already been applied.
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AI-GENERATED: A Hacker Breaking Into a Home Computer
So I typed in: “a hacker breaking into a home computer.”
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How Nvidia’s CUDA Monopoly In Machine Learning Is Breaking – OpenAI Triton And PyTorch 2.0
Over the last decade, the landscape of machine learning software development has undergone significant changes. Many frameworks have come and gone, but most have relied heavily on leveraging Nvidia’s CUDA and performed best on Nvidia GPUs. However, with the arrival of PyTorch 2.0 and OpenAI’s Triton, Nvidia’s dominant position in this field, mainly due to…
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WSL2 Includes X Server Support!
I was today-years-old when I discovered Windows Subsystem for Linux release 2 supports X-windows.
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A Brand New YouTube Channel
Yes that’s right! I’ve got a brand new YouTube channel with precisely ONE video published! Welcome to the random. I’ll post largely Information Security and/or Technology-related videos sporadically. C’mon in, the water’s fine!
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About Rapid Security Responses for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS
Rapid Security Responses deliver important security improvements between software updates.
Dustin Decker
