{"id":256355,"date":"2018-04-17T09:24:02","date_gmt":"2018-04-17T07:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=256355"},"modified":"2018-04-17T09:27:34","modified_gmt":"2018-04-17T07:27:34","slug":"intel-and-microsoft-offload-memory-malware-scanning-to-gpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/256355-intel-and-microsoft-offload-memory-malware-scanning-to-gpu.html","title":{"rendered":"Intel and Microsoft offload memory malware scanning to GPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has announced new features for its Threat Detection Technology in an effort to reassure the industry in the wake of the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/243486-meltdown-vs-spectre-what-you-need-to-know.html\">Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2018\/04\/intel-microsoft-to-use-gpu-to-scan-memory-for-malware\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Ars Technica reported<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>that<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>one of the new features is Advanced Memory Scanning, which will scan system memory to detect malware that avoids writing anything to disk.<\/p>\n<p>This can consume CPU resources, so Intel opted to offload the task to the graphics processor &#8211; which is typically lightly loaded in desktop applications.<\/p>\n<p>The GPU will scan through memory for malware signatures, which Intel said will cut the processor load to about 2%.<\/p>\n<p>Advanced Memory Scanning will be available for third-party use, and Windows Defender Advanced Threat Protection will add Intel&#8217;s GPU memory scanning technology next month.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/252039-slingshot-malware-attacks-pcs-through-routers.html\">Slingshot malware attacks PCs through routers<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Intel has announced new features for its Threat Detection Technology.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":232227,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[50035,131,50037,123],"class_list":["post-256355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-advanced-memory-scanning","tag-intel","tag-intel-threat-detection-technology","tag-microsoft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256355"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256355"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256355\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":256393,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256355\/revisions\/256393"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}