Friday, August 20th 2021
GIGABYTE, AMD & Intel Confidential Documents Published Online
You might remember our recent post about the major GIGABYTE hack by attacker group RansomEXX where they stole 112 GB of data including confidential technical documents from Intel and AMD in addition to various GIGABYTE files. The attack occurred the week of August 2 and resulted in the temporary closure of GIGABYTE's headquarters, it would appear that GIGABYTE did not reach an agreement with the attackers as the first 7 GB of these documents have now been published online. The files were uploaded to RansomEXX's public website and included confidential AMD documents along with the source code for the Intel Manageability Commander. These documents have already confirmed the details of AMD's upcoming Ryzen Threadripper 5000 lineup and Socket AM5 cooler compatibility, we expect the hackers will continue to publish the stolen data unless an agreement is reached with GIGABYTE.
Source:
CyberNews
26 Comments on GIGABYTE, AMD & Intel Confidential Documents Published Online
At first leak which is 7GB only looks like meeh.
The best I could find is some hints on how the PSP works.
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Tomorrow I won't even remember this comment.
- Internet.
From the vague, fancy spacecraft on early graphics card boxes, to ATI's Ruby, to CG girls for GPUs from Sapphire to Nvidia's CG girls (mermaid, fairy, Asian), to Titan Computing's named CG girls/products (Amanda (TEC CPU cooler), Robela (LC-integrated case), Vanessa (air coolers), etc), to MSI's Dragon, ATI's Fusion Dragon, ASUS' mechs, Gigabyte's Eagle, and now anime-themed mascots (Windows-chan, used to help popularize Windows, for example).
It's just a fascinating side element to me, having seen much of those changes; so much so that it's not unusual to see comments asking to have proper coolers just with "CG waifu stickers" or "generic macho or sexy Asian sticker" instead of RGB bling and random shroud patterns.
On a side tangent, company logos. Packard Bell used to have a vaguely pixelated face for some of its corporate logos while Gateway leaned hard on cow print. Sony's logo evolution, especially on the PS brand.
Yes, it's a weird reason to download questionable leaks just for corporate imagery rather than for product leaks, but that would be the only reason I'd do so.
For years they seemed convinced making their mobos and box arts look like you were buying a mech component would make it sell.
Of course, I may not have minded as much had they not actually translated the mech theme right down to their fairly blocky and ineffective heatsinks. At least latest gen is better there.