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As additional facets of daily life go digital, it’s more paramount now than ever to be proactive about online security. As 2022 proved, however, staying safe isn’t just a modern concern as vulnerabilities have been around for years – decades, even – and can crop up in the most unexpected places and ways.
Security researcher and password cracker Sam Croley posted benchmarks highlighting the RTX 4090’s password-cracking muscle. Nvidia’s newest flagship GPU shattered the RTX 3090’s previous benchmark records and doubled performance across almost every algorithm tested. The cracked passwords adhered to security best practices and included random letter cases, symbols, and numbers.
Security firm ESET discovered the first UEFI rootkit that had been used in the wild back in 2018. This type of persistent threat used to be the subject of theoretical discussions among security researchers, but over the past years, it’s become clear that it’s a lot more common than previously thought, despite being relatively hard to develop.
People of the world today, are we looking for a better way of life?“ sang Janet Jackson on her 1989 hit Rhythm Nation, not knowing that the better way of life she was talking about didn’t include certain hard drives.
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