Teaser¶ Someone steals your laptop. It’s running Windows 11, fully up-to-date. Device encryption (Windows BitLocker) is enabled. Secure Boot is active. BIOS/UEFI settings are locked down. So, you’re safe, right? Question 1: Can the thief access your files without knowing … Read more
Published 2nd Jan 2025 Wherein I learn too much about VGA hardware and generate some really cool glitch art while I try to fix somebody else’s fix for a video driver that’s older than I am. I’m a bit of … Read more
Windows on ARM Gets Major Gaming Boost with Prism Update Microsoft has just rolled out a game-changing update to its Prism emulator in the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview (Build 27744), marking a significant milestone for Windows on ARM devices. … Read more
Twitter users @tthirtle asked why Windows 95 setup goes through three operating systems: MS-DOS, Windows 3.1, and then Windows 95. Why not go from MS-DOS straight to Windows 95? Here’s another good question. Why does Windows 95 setup use 3 … Read more
The Issue Yesterday when trying to transfer an ISO file from a TrueNAS SMB share, I was getting horrible transfer speeds. The NAS can definitely saturate a gigabit link which is what my desktop connects to the switch over. I … Read more
By Guido Miggelenbrink at Outflank Introduction In this blog post we introduce a novel process injection technique named Early Cascade Injection, explore Windows process creation, and identify how several Endpoint Detection and Response systems (EDRs) initialize their in-process detection capabilities. … Read more
Memory-mapping is my preferred way to do file I/O, on pretty much every platform I write code for (desktop and console). In this post, we’ll start by discussing some of the key advantages of this approach, as well as some … Read more
Attackers can downgrade Windows kernel components to bypass security features such as Driver Signature Enforcement and deploy rootkits on fully patched systems. This is possible by taking control of the Windows Update process to introduce outdated, vulnerable software components on … Read more
Windows 11 24H2 users are finding there is undeletable data that remains on their devices after installing the recently released feature update. The known issues list has not grown in the days since the rollout on October 15, however, for … Read more
We are used to seeing Linux perform much better than Windows for rendering with Blender and that still holds true with Lunar Lake. While the Xe2 graphics were slower on Linux than Windows as previously shown and those Xe2 LNL … Read more