Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Monday, March 7th, 2022.

I'm Brian McCullough today.

The evolving Hack Story involving NVIDIA has now hit Samsung as the same hackers

apparently have some of their source code. Are the iMac updates I'm really

hungry for getting pushback all the way to next year? the real reason why brands are leaving Russia and consumer

beware. Scams seem to be rampant on Zell and your bank might not be willing to help you.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

There's a big hacking story going on that I don't think we've covered.

Invidia has been hacked in a major way. First, there were reports of outages in

NVIDIA systems in late February and according to Have I Been Poned, hackers

stole more than 71,000 NVIDIA staff credentials including email

IDs and Windows password hashes, many of which were cracked and circulated.

Now apparently the hackers have claimed responsibility for the hack and out of themselves.

A group called Lapsus says that if NVIDIA doesn't remove crypto mining limits on its graphics cards and open source its

GPU drivers, the group will release the source code that it is also stolen

quoting Ars Technica. A ransomware group calling itself Laps' first claim last week that it hacked into

NVIDIA's corporate network and stolen more than one terabyte of data.

Included in the theft, the group claims are schematics and source code for drivers and firmware.

A relative newcomer to the ransomware scene, Lapsis has already published one tranche of leaked files,

which among other things included the usernames and cryptographic

hashes for 71,335 of the chipmakers employees. The group then went on to

make the highly unusual demand. Remove a feature known as LHR short for light hash rate or see the further leaking

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