-- Leo's gemini proxy
-- Connecting to gemini.tuxmachines.org:1965...
-- Connected
-- Sending request
-- Meta line: 20 text/gemini;lang=en-GB
Tux Machines
Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 12, 2022,
updated Oct 12, 2022
> Despite what Tony Stark says, the word hackers really stuck. Because it’s easy to say, it has a derisive impression to those who do the deed for selfish ends, while remaining technically trendy. Say hacker ten times compared to malicious cyber actor. Anyway, exactly what is hacking? How do hackers hack our social media, our bank accounts, our very lives?
> Researchers have used thermal cameras and ML guessing techniques to recover passwords from measuring the residual heat left by fingers on keyboards.
> Security updates have been issued by Debian (mediawiki and twig), Oracle (expat, gnutls and nettle, and kernel), Red Hat (expat, kernel, and kpatch-patch), and Ubuntu (advancecomp and dotnet6).
↺ New AMD Zen 4 Processors reportedly run even faster with Linux Kernel Security Mitigations enabled
> While most processors on the market are faster when disabling security tweaks/patches for certain bugs such as Spectre or Meltdown, it was recently discovered that the AMD Ryzen 7000 family does better when the Spectre V2 mitigations are enabled in the Linux kernel. The tests were first ran on the Ryzen 9 7950X, and then on the Ryzen 5 7600X.
-- Response ended
-- Page fetched on Sat Jun 1 06:20:42 2024
