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Hackers are often stopped from stealing passwords directly from processors by clouds of etherial locks (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by Manifish_Destiny to c/veryrealtechpics
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[–] [email protected] 12 points 11 months ago

Using the micro fine point of this tool, only nanometers across at the tip, this hacker can actually enter in the bits of your encryption key directly into the CPU cache. Or, reprogram the upcoming instructions in real time. Please, check your kids Halloween candy.

[–] KnightontheSun 7 points 11 months ago

Festooned with hoodie, balaclava and gloves you know this hax0r is l33t.

[–] MajorHavoc 6 points 11 months ago

I hate clouds of ethereal locks. They really ruin my pentesting day.

[–] VelvetGentleman 5 points 11 months ago

This one hits close to home. My mainframe got icepicked just last week.