Collaborate Disseminate
Everyone should know by now that we love to follow up on projects when they make progress. It’s great to be able to celebrate accomplishments and see how a project …read more Continue reading Collaborative Effort Gets Laser Galvos Talking G-Code
[mircemk] is quite a wizard when it comes to using coils of wires in projects, especially when their application is within easy-to-build metal detectors. There are all kinds of ways …read more Continue reading Metal Detector Gets Help From Smartphone
TFT technology might be ancient news for monitors and TVs, but it’s alive and well when it comes to hobbyist electronics and embedded devices. They’ve now become even easier to …read more Continue reading Universal TFT Display Backpack Helps Small Displays Shine
I understand the difference between a Ring-0 rootkit and a Ring-3 rootkit, in terms of their hierarchical depth in computational models. That is kernel mode and usermode, respectively.
I am confused as to whether there is a difference betw… Continue reading Is there a difference between a bootkit and a ring-0 rootkit?
I’m struggling to wrap my head around the following thing:
I have a video adapter (NVidia). It was bought new about a year ago and had the newest video drivers at the time
I disabled all the NVidia updates, stopped all their services / co… Continue reading Do Hardware Manufacturers Control PC’s Remotely? [closed]
Maybe because I am a cheap bastard or just because I saw no better alternative in the market in terms of reported performance and functionality vs. size, I bought this USB bluetooth/WiFi5 dongle:
https://www.amazon.nl/XVZ-bluetooth-600mbps… Continue reading Tips for auditing/finding a better/trusted source for an anonymous but open source network device linux driver from some random github repo
I work for a company with a large user base. There is a requirement to allow users to add printers to their laptops e.g. when working from home.
What are the security risks?
Is their a bad actor can use a printer to hack the laptop?
Can a … Continue reading What are the risks of allowing general users to add printers to their company laptops?
If one of your machines have a virus or breached certain protocols where drivers have been installed where they could potentially be malicious, i.e virus, worm etc., would the virus/worm be able to infect other computers that are connected… Continue reading Can a computer be infected via local network while powered off [duplicate]
Autoruns shows three Intel items in my Windows 10 19043 start-up
Two of them are signed, one of them is not.
Unsigned = C:\Program Files (x86)\Intel\Intel(R) Update Manager\bin\iumsvc.exe
When I say unsigned, I mean the column headed Publi… Continue reading Unsigned Intel item in start-up?
Some are standard user space dll’s and another one is actually a windows driver. The libraries alone are not dangerous and are pure utilities but they can be used by bad guys, like most software tools.
I was advised to sign the driver with… Continue reading How to stop 3rd party libraries from being reported as malicious, if they were part of malicious programs in the past?