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Best strategy to recover running Macbook "modern" Pro ram
The best strategy depends on what your constraints and goals are. A quick answer...
Perhaps an alternative is to powerbutton-off the laptop and then bootup a USB Linux which does not "touch"...
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hashcat skipping gpu even if it's recognizing the device and the driver is installed
Try running with -d 3 -D 2 flags.
-D 2 will force the hashcat to only look for GPUs. (-D is for specifying device type)
-d 3 will force it to use the Radeon Pro 560X Compute Engine. (-d is for ...
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Data security while MacBook is on lock screen
I don't have detailed information on FileVault, but all FDE (Full Disk Encryption) schemes perform best when computer is cold, namely shut down completely.
FileVault suffers the same weaknesses as ...
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MacBookPro's OSX install.log has entries that predate the initial unboxing
For future Googlers:
I was able to confirm that the entries predating the initial unboxing were logged during one of the final steps of Apple's manufacturing process, where the laptop is briefly ...
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Is setting a firmware password on a Macbook enough to prevent cold boot attacks?
My understanding is that the Macbook Pro Retina has had soldered on RAM since 2012 and all other Macbook's since 2016. So quickly removing the RAM is not a likely attack. This would involve ...
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Is setting a firmware password on a Macbook enough to prevent cold boot attacks?
From wikipedia
Alternatively, the memory modules are removed from the original system and quickly placed in a compatible machine under the attacker's control, which is then booted to access the ...
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Can data be stored anywhere else on a MacBook besides the SSD?
There is other writable storage on the system like chips for storing the bios or other firmware. These are usually just a few MB so you can't store everything from your SSD on there. But enough to ...
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How do I secure personal data on my computer when my employer installs monitoring software?
We were bought and now the parent company wants to add monitoring
software to our personal computers.
That sounds completely wrong to me. Using personal devices for work is already borderline in my ...
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How to non-intrusively monitor my team's MacBooks secure configuration?
You have covered most of the available options, but there are a few more:
Lynis comes close, it's been out there since 2007, open source, and supports all major OSes. The drawback is that it's ...
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How to non-intrusively monitor my team's MacBooks secure configuration?
Endpoint Agents
The only way to do this on non-managed machines with the level of assurance that you appear to want is to install an endpoint agent that reports on the device configuration.
These ...
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How do I secure personal data on my computer when my employer installs monitoring software?
If you configure a separate installation of MacOS on the additional APFS volume, then files and activity on your personal MacOS will be safe from observation from the work MacOS. The computer is ...
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How do I secure personal data on my computer when my employer installs monitoring software?
The best option is to run a virtual machine that is solely for work so that all that the monitoring software sees is the VM.
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How is my Macbook connecting to my WiFi APs without asking for a password?
I'm reasonably sure this is because of Apple's Instant Hotspot.
You haven't mentioned with phone you are using, but assuming it is an iPhone, if both devices are signed into iCloud with the same Apple ...
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If I am trying to clean install a MacOS with internet recovery, is it safer to use mobile network than WIFI network?
It is probably fine.
However, since my Pc was had a virus, I was worried that my IP addresss and home WiFi network has been compromised, can I still trust that the installation was not tempered ...
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If I am trying to clean install a MacOS with internet recovery, is it safer to use mobile network than WIFI network?
However, since my Pc was had a virus, I was worried that my IP
addresss and home WiFi network has been compromised,
I suggest you to reset your WiFi, try to check the authenticity of firmware cross-...
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Remote monitoring of key strokes — is an RF retro reflector required?
Almost any computer equipment, including keyboards, monitors, CPUs, and others, can emit RF signals that leak information. There is no way of knowing if your particular machine emits such signals, or ...
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