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Critical Windows USB exploit allows flash drives to grant root access, patch issued

Critical Windows USB exploit allows flash drives to grant root access, patch issued
  • Posted March 13, 2013, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Microsoft, IT Security
  • Microsoft's Patch Tuesday yielded an interesting security fix for a glaring vulnerability in how the Windows kernel handles USB device enumeration. The critical vulnerability allowed potential hackers with physical access to a Windows PC to run arbitrary code with system…

Samsung creates flash-friendly, open source file system: F2FS

Samsung creates flash-friendly, open source file system: F2FS
  • Posted October 8, 2012, 4:30 PM by Rick Burgess | Filed in Industry News, Mobile Computing
  • Samsung codesmith Jaegeuk Kim has submitted a new "flash-friendly" file system to the Linux Kernel tree. The new file system, coined F2FS (flash-friendly file system), is actually open source and is the embodiment of Samsung's efforts to develop a file…

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