A quote from Top Gun maybe, but many broadband providers are offering superfast connections these days. So why are we not noticing it? Well the speed you get at the device depends on more than the Megabits that your provider allows you. One thing that you may have some control over is your device Network Interface.
Continue reading “The Need for Speed”Windows 7 & Server 2008
You will have seen many news items about Windows 7 reaching end of life but as techies we should probably be more concerned with Server 2008 and Exchange Server 2010 which were also dragged into the recycle bin this month.
Invisible Malware
This can be a problem in some organisation that rely on anti-virus scans of storage devices as it doesn’t come in a file stored on the computer. Instead it is injected directly into memory.
Continue reading “Invisible Malware”What are Meltdown/Spectre?
You will have seen a lot in the news about these two threats to the devices that you use and / or manage.
‘Meltdown’ and ‘Spectre’ are two related, side-channel attacks against modern CPU microprocessors that can result in unprivileged code reading data it should not be able to.