Ghidra 101: Slice Highlighting | The State of Security

Ghidra 101: Slice Highlighting | The State of Security

In this blog series, I will be putting the spotlight on useful Ghidra features you may have missed. Each post will look at a different feature and show how it helps you save time and be more effective in your reverse engineering workflows. Ghidra is an incredibly powerful tool, but much of this power comes from knowing how to use it effectively. In this post, I will be discussing what slice highlighting is and how…

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You’re not imagining things, there is a serious chip shortage

You’re not imagining things, there is a serious chip shortage

If you’ve noticed components are hard to get these days, you are not alone. The supply of computing components can get a little tight around the end of the year but this year is especially bad, much of it due to Covid-19-related issues. Intel spent much of 2020 struggling with CPU shortages. In the latter half of the year it was hit with chipset shortages, with the B460 and H410 chipsets reportedly out of stock…

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Disaster recovery lessons from an island struck by a hurricane

Disaster recovery lessons from an island struck by a hurricane

(A hurricane devastated an island that held two data centers controlling mission-critical systems for an American biotech company. They flew a backup expert with four decades of experience to the island on a corporate jet to save the day. This is the story of the challenges he faced and how he overcame them. He spoke on the condition of anonymity, so we call him Ron, the island Atlantis, his employer Initech, and we don’t name…

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Dell Technologies to present at the J.P. Morgan 19th Annual Tech/Auto Forum | Dell Technologies

Dell Technologies to present at the J.P. Morgan 19th Annual Tech/Auto Forum | Dell Technologies

ROUND ROCK, Texas, Jan. 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Dell Technologies (NYSE: DELL) announces that Sam Burd, president of Dell Technologies’ Client Solutions Group, will participate as a speaker at the J.P. Morgan 19th Annual Tech/Auto Forum during CES 2021 in a virtual fireside chat on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 1:50 p.m. CT / 2:50 p.m. ET. A live webcast and a replay of the webcast will be available on Dell Technologies’ Investor Relations page at investors.delltechnologies.com….

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VMware to Present at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Virtual Conference

VMware to Present at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Virtual Conference

News Detail PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW), a leading innovator in enterprise software, today announced that Pat Gelsinger, VMware’s chief executive officer will present as a keynote speaker at the Goldman Sachs Technology and Internet Virtual Conference on Tuesday, January 12, 2021 at 10:10 a.m. PT/ 1:10 p.m. ET. A live webcast will be available on VMware’s Investor … Wed, 06 Jan 2021 00:00:00 PALO ALTO, Calif.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– VMware, Inc. (NYSE: VMW),…

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Podcast: Architecting your approach to multi-cloud resource provisioning. – VMware Cloud Community

Podcast: Architecting your approach to multi-cloud resource provisioning. – VMware Cloud Community

In our latest multi-cloud architecture podcast, Eric Nielsen (@ericnpro) and I (@davidj7494) sat down with Cody Carlson to explore concepts associated with automating the deployment of infrastructure in both the data center and the cloud.  As part of that discussion, we also looked at the role that Terraform by HashiCorp and VMware vRealize Automation play in this process. Cody is Senior Solution Architect working within VMware’s Global Customer Support Organization.  Unlike many of our prior…

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SMS Phishing Is Getting Out Of Control

SMS Phishing Is Getting Out Of Control

Image: KENZO TRIBOUILLARD/AFP via Getty Images People around the world are increasingly receiving malicious text messages designed to steal personal information or break into one of their accounts. This type of scam, called SMS phishing or smishing, has been around since cellphones became a thing, but the practice is becoming very popular among scammers at the moment. In the last few months, my wife and I have received a handful of smishing texts: one purporting to…

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NIST SP 800-128 – Because Patching May Never Fix Your Hidden Flaws

NIST SP 800-128 – Because Patching May Never Fix Your Hidden Flaws

Over the last few years, the idea of patching systems to correct flaws has graduated from an annoying business disruption to a top priority. With all of the notorious vulnerabilities that can wreak total havoc, the time it takes to patch becomes a minor inconvenience when weighed against both the technical challenges and possible regulatory penalties of not patching.  While patching is a critical component of a comprehensive security program, one area that is more challenging…

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