Collaborate Disseminate
Aside from apparently having both the ability to reproduce on their own and simultaneously never being around when you need one, USB chargers seem innocuous enough. The specs are simple: …read more Continue reading Just How Dodgy Are Cheap USB Chargers Anyway?
A mildly annoying trend over recent years has been for USB hardware devices to expose a CD-ROM drive containing their drivers for Windows users. Of course there’s no real CD …read more Continue reading A Network Adapter Thinks it’s a CD-ROM. Restore its True Calling!
[Crispernaki] and I have something in common. We both saw this awesome project that made a scroll wheel out of a VHS head back in 2010, and wanted to make …read more Continue reading Impostor Syndrome: It’s Not Your Fault!
For better or worse, most drivers for PC-related hardware like RGB components and fan controllers are built for Windows and aren’t generally of the highest quality. They’re often proprietary and …read more Continue reading PC Fan Controller Works on Most Operating Systems
My partner recently got given work laptop and if you try and put in a USB mass storage device you get an error saying it is not allowed. Without having administrator access I assume this is via the group policy All Removable Storage Classe… Continue reading Methods to bypass Windows security policy: All Removable Storage Classes – Deny All Access
What in the world could possibly justify charging $129 for a USB cable? And is such a cable any better than a $10 Amazon Basics cable? To answer that question, …read more Continue reading Using Industrial CT to Examine a $129 USB Cable
There is plenty of discussion on how USB thumbdrives can be used for malicious purposes if one decides to go down that rabbit hole. One mitigation that is discussed in that context is to completely disable USB storage devices.
Are there an… Continue reading Strategies for dealing with threats from malicious USB thumb drives – apart from blocking it alltogether
The answer provided to this question by forest has a good summary explaining the types of attacks that a malicious USB can do.
Does USB redirection in a VM provide any protection against any of these attack vectors (e.g. confining an expl… Continue reading What kind of USB-based attacks can be prevented by a VM?
In this article, we will see the possible fixes if Thunderbolt is not detecting the display on Windows 11. If your laptop has a Thunderbolt port, you can use it to connect an external display by using a docking station or you can also connect the exter… Continue reading Thunderbolt not detecting display in Windows 11
As news of the iPhone 15 jams up the airwaves, you can also take a trip back to 1984, aesthetically speaking, with this retro desktop hub that channels the questionable beauty of the Macintosh 128K, but offers much more user-friendly modern appeal.Cont… Continue reading This retro 14-in-one docking system takes you back to the future