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Hackers are often stopped from stealing passwords directly from processors by clouds of etherial locks (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Manifish_Destiny to c/veryrealtechpics

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year 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 1 year ago

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

[–] MajorHavoc 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] VelvetGentleman 5 points 1 year ago

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