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Monday, 13 April 2015 14:51
Florida Judge Says that an IP Address is not enough to prove piracy
Written by Sean Kalinich
If you have been following news about piracy, copyright, or indeed almost anything you will know that the copyright industry often employs some rather shady methods to get their way. One of the shadiest methods is the demand letter. If…
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Monday, 06 April 2015 15:21
Global Foundries announces 14nm process in partnetship with Samsung
Written by Sean Kalinich
When it comes to competing in the CPU market, one of AMD’s big issues has been trying to get to the same process as Intel. Ever since the purchase of ATi by AMD they have always been one (and in…
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Thursday, 02 April 2015 13:40
"New" Exploit using WordPress and Pirate Bay Clone to Spread Malware
Written by Sean Kalinich
It is no secret that malware is often spread through sites that offer pirated content. No matter the type of content there is a chance that someone has put up a file that is little more than malware. This type…
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Tuesday, 24 March 2015 11:15
PoS systems are the new compromise cash cow...
Written by Sean Kalinich
The Point of Sale (PoS) station is probably one of the most targeted devices in recent years. There are multiple reasons for this: older operating systems, the need to POS users to have admin rights, generic logons for the “windows”…
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Back in August of 2014 while covering DEFCON 22 we sat in on a talk about how insecure the UEFI BIOS was and how it could potentially grant a malicious person ring zero access to your system. The talk was…
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Monday, 23 March 2015 14:44
AMD only putting HBM into the Radeon 380 and 390... why?
Written by Sean Kalinich
We have talked about some of the challenges that AMD is facing due to poor sales (and bad leadership), but many of these challenges have not been as evident as what is happening in the GPU world. Although we have…
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Friday, 20 March 2015 14:17
Windows 10 Pirate Edition Update... Things are just as confusing.
Written by Sean Kalinich
So, remember that comment Microsoft made about upgrading non-genuine version of Windows 7 and 8.x to Windows 10? Well we finally have some more information on that. Sadly the new information causes more confusion than it clears up. According to…
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Wednesday, 18 March 2015 16:49
NVIDIA's Pascal to use 2.5D HBM Just like AMD
Written by Sean Kalinich
During NVIDIA’s recent GTC announcements the world was shown the new Titian X with 12GB of GDDR5. This impressive monster of a card has shown that it has a large amount of power to push your games and other graphical…
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Wednesday, 18 March 2015 11:12
Windows 10 Upgrade Could be Free, Even for Pirated Copies
Written by Sean Kalinich
Microsoft is making a bold move with Windows 10 and we are not just talking about a redesign of the OS here. It seems that they would really like people to move from Windows 7 and 8.x to Windows 10.…
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Monday, 16 March 2015 15:59
P2P update engine seen in leaked copy of the latest Windows 10 build... what are they thinking?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Despite a valiant attempt to label P2P transfers and BitTorrent as the devil Microsoft and others are looking to move this direction for updates and other services. In the latest build of Windows 10 the new P2P updating mechanism was…
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Monday, 16 March 2015 09:40
Did the Pirate Bay find a loop hole in the UK Ban order, or is there a bug in the UK Block system?
Written by Sean Kalinich
According to recent reports The Pirate Bay has suddenly become available in the UK for almost all ISPs. The change happened when the Pirate Bay moved to CloudFlare and turned on HTTPS Strict. Once this was done things turned around…
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Monday, 16 March 2015 06:50
New TOR hack only needs traffic from one direction and is 95% accurate. no surprise there...
Written by Sean Kalinich
Gasp! There has been another published attack on the TOR Project. This time the attack and compromise technique comes from the gang at Princeton. The Princeton team claims that their new methods are around 95% successful and only require traffic…
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Friday, 13 March 2015 14:50
Reall Killer USB Built to provide -110 volts of fun to your PC or Mac
Written by Sean Kalinich
As if lose USB drives with the potential for spyware and malware are not bad enough, some mad genius decided to build a USB device that is technically capable of doing damage to the hardware components of most modern computers.…
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Friday, 13 March 2015 14:17
Rumors Point to 8GB of HBM on AMD's Radeon 390X, but do they hold water?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Some GPU news comes today from the AMD camp where we are hearing rumors that AMD’s Radeon 390X might ship with 8GB of High Bandwidth Memory (HBM). Now this sounds great when you take into account the fact that HBM…
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Friday, 13 March 2015 10:46
Will there really be direct Multi-GPU support in DX12?
Written by Sean Kalinich
Yesterday Microsoft may have confirmed what many have speculated, DirectX 12 will have a multi-GPU component that will allow AMD and nVidia to play nicely together. What this means exactly no one is sure, but we do know that some…
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Thursday, 12 March 2015 16:28
Intel launches a new Xeon based SoC that should be perfect for Firewalls and NAS boxes
Written by Sean Kalinich
In an unsurprising move Intel has kicked out a new SoC (System on Chip) that bears the label Xeon. The Xeon D 1500 family is intended as to be a one-chip solution for networking devices, storage appliances and micro-servers. The…
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