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SanDisk Extreme Portable SSD (SDSSDE61) Speed Tests - With and Without Encryption
I was curious to find out how much speed I get out of SanDisk SSD on USB 3 port, supporting USB 3.1 Gen 1 Standard with 5Gb/s speeds. Also, I wanted to find out if the hardware and filesystem encryption affect these speeds. I will let the numbers do the talking.
CISSP Exam - Introduction and FAQs
This article gives a brief introduction of the CISSP exam and answers some of the commonly asked questions.
Interesting Tech from March 2021
Find out about some interesting news from the world of blockchain and NFTs, Microsoft Exchange vulnerabilities, SMS rerouting and much more…
Interesting Tech News from February 2021
In February, we found out about Chipageddon, Mars rover landing, VW choosing Azure for its self-driving fleet, Florida water supply hack and some other interesting stuff …
Significant Data Breaches and Cyber Attacks Discovered or Reported in 2020
This article briefly goes through some of the significant and/or interesting cyber-attacks and data breaches of 2020 that were discovered and reported. This includes AWS DDoS attack, SolarWinds Sunburst attack, Twitter Hack, Spotify Credential Stuffing attack, iOS zero-click hack and Malware enabled Chrome extensions.
Interesting Tech News from January 2021
New year started with the Slack Outage, unveiling of new redesigned Tesla’s models, shutting down of one of the world’s largest Botnets and much more…
Interesting Tech News from December 2020
Highlights from December 2020… One of the most sophisticated hacks of 2020, space mobile service without any satellite phone, homomorphic encryption, Tesla’s boombox update, X-Mode allegedly misusing your location data and much more.
Interesting Tech News from November 2020
Interesting November. Roomba wouldn’t vacuum and Ring doorbells stopped working, Starlink’s satellite internet beta testing, Apple’s official unveiling of M1, new DJI drone launch and some more news …
Interesting Tech News from October 2020
iPhone 12 launch, NASA’s interesting 4G surprise, Intel’s expansion of SGX offering and Big Tech’s quarterly reports were some of the October tech news highlights.
Could Not Back Up the iPhone because Not Enough Free Space is Available on This Mac
Have you not been able to backup your iPhone on to your Mac? Is it complaining about not enough free space available? Do you also do Time Machine backups? If answer is Yes, to all those questions, you might want to check this article.
Interesting Tech News from September 2020
Month of September has been the month of Fall announcements. We found out about new hardware this month such as Amazon’s ring always home drone, iPAD air and Watch series 6, Oculus Quest 2, Nvidia new RTX GPU and Intel’s Tiger Lake processors. Also, find out about a new interesting development in 5G mmWave technology and much more.
Google Nest Wi-Fi Router and Wi-Fi Points - Coverage in a 2 Floor House with a Basement
Thinking of buying a Google Nest Wi-Fi router and/or Wi-Fi points? Would you need just a router or Wi-Fi points are needed as well for your home? Would there be a considerable difference between one vs. two Nest Wi-Fi points? How does the nest router’s coverage compare to 10-year-old Cisco-Linksys router’s coverage? This article will try to help answer these questions.
Interesting Tech News from August 2020
Apple’s battle with Fortnite developer Epic, Elon Musk’s demonstration of brain-machine-interface device, AI making faster MRI scans possible and some more interesting stories to unpack from the month of August 2020.
Interesting Tech News from July, 2020
What we found out in July? A serious twitter hack, earnings from the big 5 tech giants, first ever Mars mission, official launch of EOS R5, release of a new video codec and a few more tech news …
Critical f5 Vulnerability That Could Potentially Allow Hackers to Exploit Corporate Networks
Most of the big corporations have F5s deployed as an integral part of their IT/Security infrastructure and this vulnerability, which was discovered in June, 2020, with 9.8/10 rating poses a serious threat.
Interesting Tech News from June, 2020
One of the largest DDoS attacks, Apple’s WWDC2020, PS5 reveal, Chrome’s deceptive add-ons are one of a few highlights from June’s Tech News.
Interesting Tech News from May, 2020
SpaceX’s successful human launch, world’s first AI image sensor, some major cyber attacks, interesting Microsoft Build’s announcements and much more to unpack in the month of May, 2020…
Tech in last 7 Days - Week Ending Friday, 1-May-2020
Big Tech earnings, DJI’s new drone, Zoom choice of Oracle are some of the highlights this week.
Tech in last 7 Days - Week Ending Friday, April 24, 2020
Big upgrade to Wi-FI, Apple iOS security vulnerability, new Uber Services, reliability of blood oxygen level measuring apps, AI & 5G…there is a lot to unpack this week.
Tech in last 7 Days - Week Ending Friday, April 17, 2020
From MIT’s COVID-19 ML model’s predictions to Facebook’s work on bot simulation on the real platform. These are the main highlights from past 7 days.