USB drivers included in the Linux kernel are rife with security flaws that in some cases can be exploited to run untrusted code and take over users' computers. The vast majority of these ...

In theory, writing a Linux device driver shouldn’t be that hard, but it is harder than it looks. However, using libusb, you can easily deal with USB devices from user space, which, for many purposes, ...

The lspci command actually has two more levels of verbosity you can access by typing -vv or -vvv. You'll end up with a ton of text to parse, though. Unless you're a developer, you probably won't gain ...

There are USB sticks that will destroy your computer, USB sticks loaded with spyware, and even official enterprise USB sticks infected with malware. Last, but never least, when it comes to stealing ...

The lshw (list hardware) command on Linux systems provides a lot more information on system devices than most of us might imagine is available. While far from being one of the first 50 Linux commands ...

Linux Mint 22.3 'Zena' is now rolling out, and it's another great update for the Ubuntu-based distribution. It includes the ...

You’re all pretty much familiar with the procedure involved in creating Windows 11 or Windows 10 bootable media on computers running Windows operating system. In this post, we will show you the ...

First and foremost, we will enable USB in VMware Workstation to allow the virtual machine to detect and use USB devices connected to the host system. This setting must be enabled, and here’s how to do ...