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Vendors - once again - rule the security world, especially in Health Care Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 02 March 2021
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Sean Kalinich
It seems that is the time once again to talk about the relationship between software vendors and the security posture of different business verticals. Why are we beating this particular dead horse? Well with the Covid-19 Pandemic, the rush to…
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As Work from Home Increases with COVID-19 Cases are We Looking at a Playground for Threat Actors? Featured
Posted on Friday, 06 March 2020
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Sean Kalinich
In December 2019 a new virus was detected in Wuhan China, this virus (COVID-19 or the Coronavirus) has spread rapidly through out China and the rest of the world. With its apparent ease of transmission and difficulty in detecting (early…
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With More and More Hardware Flaws Found, How Will the Security Industry Respond? Featured
Posted on Friday, 06 March 2020
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Sean Kalinich
The IT Security industry has spent billions of dollars on software to keep you “safe” from malware and attackers. Whether that money was spent in marketing or actual product improvement is up for debate. Still the fact remains that each…
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New Tech, Stale Tech, and the Diminishing Security Skill Set Featured
Posted on Tuesday, 19 March 2019
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Sean Kalinich
Although not a new subject here at DecryptedTech we thought it was time for us to dive into three of serious issues in the security world (out of many). The three we are covering today are emerging technologies, stale technologies…
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When updates go wrong, horribly wrong Featured
Posted on Monday, 04 February 2019
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Sean Kalinich
When you think about operating system updates you probably do not think about the security team. Sure, there are security patches and such, but those are on the operations team and not really pushed out by the security team. Well,…
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Leaked emails are the new "IT" when it comes to swaying the debate
Posted on Wednesday, 12 July 2017
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Sean Kalinich
Questionable security practices aside, it seems that just about every "big" scandal lately has had leaked emails as some sort of component. In the latest such scandal we find that leaked Kaspersky emails are at the core of the US…
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New WikiLeaks Vault7 reveals show nothing that is all that new
Posted on Monday, 03 July 2017
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Sean Kalinich
WikiLeaks is at it again with their "Vault 7" releases. This time part of the dump features a nice little took kit for continued exploitation of some Linux systems. The tool kit is called OutlawCountry and is, to be perfectly…
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Is HBM a viable technology for GPUs? Yes, Yes it is… just not right now
Posted on Tuesday, 20 June 2017
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Sean Kalinich
Over the last couple of days, we have received information that would indicate nVidia is not moving to HBM 2 for their consumer GPUs (outside of some extremely high-end models). Instead, they appear to be focusing on improvements found in…
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Did Intel Repond to Threadripper, or just to Ryzen in General?
Posted on Wednesday, 07 June 2017
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Sean Kalinich
Computex 2017 is done, the hangovers are pretty much gone, and what do we have to show for it? Well… we have a new fight for fanboys and review sites alike to talk about. This is the fight between AMD’s…
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This is going to be a little bit of a departure from how we would normally approach covering specific technology. Instead of addressing the state of hardware based on what we have actually worked with, we are going to look…
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Product Testing for Security Tools Must Change or Things Will Go From Bad To Worse
Posted on Monday, 24 April 2017
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Sean Kalinich
If you have been paying attention to the technical news lately you might have noticed more than a few articles pointing fingers back and forth between the AntiMalware company Cylance and the… well the industry. The argument (if you have…
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Conumers have a blind spot when it comes to IoT and Security
Posted on Monday, 09 January 2017
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Sean Kalinich
The Internet of Things, or IoT, Connected Devices, Smart devices whatever you want to call them have become a fixture in most homes. It has gotten to the point where you have to look hard to find a device that…
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Enigma Responds to Press over BleepingComputer lawsuit.
Posted on Monday, 08 February 2016
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Sean Kalinich
About a week ago we brought you news that Enigma Software had filed a lawsuit against BleepingComputer alleging that they were posting items that were defamatory in nature. At the time of the article we linked the page that BC…
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BleepingComputer hit with SLAPP suit from Enigma Software over comparrion thread.
Posted on Tuesday, 02 February 2016
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Sean Kalinich
The term SLAPP is one that most people might not be aware of. To put it bluntly SLAPP (Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation) lawsuits are ones that attempt to censor information or public discourse on a particular topic. The most…
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Is Virtual Reality really the next IT technology?
Posted on Monday, 01 February 2016
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Sean Kalinich
It is said that nature abhors a vacuum and that is certainly true. Something will come along to fill the void if we let nature take its course. Unfortunately this law is a little mutated in the consumer electronics market…
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The race to HBM2 for the future VR GPU performance crown
Posted on Thursday, 28 January 2016
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Sean Kalinich
On the 19th of January Samsung announced that they had begun mass production of their 4GB HBM 2.0 3D memory. This announcement was the starting gun for the next big GPU race. As we know both AMD and NVIDIA are…
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