Security researchers have busted the encryption in several popular Crucial and Samsung SSDs

Researchers at Radboud University have found critical security flaws in several popular Crucial and Samsung solid state drives (SSDs), which they say can be easily exploited to recover encrypted data without knowing the password. The researchers, who detailed their findings in a new paper out Monday, reverse engineered the firmware of several drives to find […]

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AWS cuts in half the price of most of its Lightsail virtual private servers

AWS Lightsail, which launched in 2016, is Amazon’s answer to the rise of Digital Ocean, OVH and other affordable virtual private server (VPS) players. Lightsail started as a pretty basic service, but over the course of the last two years, AWS added features like block storage, Windows support and additional regions. Today, the company announced it […]

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Samsung is making a 512GB chip to give smartphones an insane amount of storage

When Samsung released its 256GB storage chip, we were impressed. 
Today, Samsung has doubled down on that. Literally. The Korean company announced it’s begun production of a 512GB chip, the most powerful chip the industry has ever seen, reports …

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Samsung is making a 512GB chip to give smartphones an insane amount of storage

When Samsung released its 256GB storage chip, we were impressed. 
Today, Samsung has doubled down on that. Literally. The Korean company announced it’s begun production of a 512GB chip, the most powerful chip the industry has ever seen, reports …

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