This week at the Chaos Computer Club’s (CCC) annual Chaos Communication Congress, hacker Thomas Lambertz presented ‘Windows BitLocker: Screwed without a Screwdriver,’ detailing how users can beat BitLocker encryption and gain access to protected data. The old reported-fixed bug,CVE-2023-21563, can still be exploited on current versions of Windows with just one-time physical device access and a network connection. Still, the attack doesn’t require opening up the PC or having hours of access as with other drive decryption exploits [h/tHeise]....

Data elimination company Garner seeks to make disassembling HDDs easier, faster, and more exciting with its new product, the DiskMantler. By intensely shaking a hard drive, the device promises to fully separate all of the individual components that make up a spinning disk drive in 90 seconds or less. Garner’shelpful and dramatic videoshows that their DiskMantler is an effortless user experience. Insert a hard drive like a VHS tape into the input slot, turn the timer for anywhere from 8 to 120 seconds (Garner estimates the process should take an average of 60 seconds, but each drive is different), and wait as your precious hard drive is violently vibrated to death....

PowerShell provides advanced options to control and manage all processes on your system. So, if you wish to automate any process or a bunch of them, PowerShell is the way to go. Unlike Command Prompts, PowerShell uses cmdlets. These cmdlets are not standalone executables but process inputs from one pipeline and give output to another for the same object. So, you can use a number of cmdlets for the same object and have them execute as a single task....

BIOS checks the hardware and peripherals’ availability and provides a pathway for them to receive instructions from the CPU. If the BIOS gets corrupted or damaged, the hardware will have no gateway to receive initiation signals. Then, your system will not boot at all and your motherboard will beconsidered bricked. Having said that, it is also not an everyday thing for the BIOS to get damaged. We most often corrupt the firmware while updating BIOS....

There are a lot of things you can customize in Windows, and that holds true for the mouse cursor as well. You can change the color of your cursor, apply a different cursor scheme or even replace your cursor with a custom image. If you want the option to natively change the way your cursor looks, you can do so from either the Settings app or the Control panel. You can also opt to use third-party applications to change the look of your mouse cursor....

There are few short-range connections more convenient than Bluetooth. With a few clicks, you may connect any compatible device to your computer and not even have wires in your way as a result. However, Bluetooth doesn’t come standard on every computer. What is Bluetooth? Bluetooth is a wireless connection that lets two devices send information back and forth. It works in the same way as awired connection, but with the added convenience of not needing wires....

Unlike SSDs and hard drives that have Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T), most SD cards lack such built-in status monitoring and reporting technology. So it is actually very difficult to check the actual health of an SD card. Most modern Industrial standard SD cards do have such a technology. But since they are much more expensive and are not available in abundance in the market, most people use commercial-grade ones....

you may usually connect to Wi-Fi on your Dell laptop by selecting the Service Set Identifier (SSID) or network name and entering the password. However, there are a few things that can go wrong depending on your router or system configuration. Here, we will provide a step-by-step guide on connecting your laptop to Wi-Fi. In the end, we will also mention how you can resolve any potential issues that you can encounter during the process....

Mapping a network drive is one of the most convenient ways to create a shortcut or link to a shared resource on your Windows system. The mapped drive shows up under Network locations inside This PC on your File Explorer. you may also share a folder from your system and map it to a drive for easier access. However, if you no longer need such a shortcut, it only creates more branches on your network locations....

If multiple users are accessing the same computer, it’s pretty sure that each one wants to use their preferred setting. This is why most of us create separate sign-in accounts with individual user profile. Having independent profiles is advantageous until you start experiencing issues with your user account. Sometimes, one of your user profiles may get corrupted and throw errors like ‘User profile cannot be loaded,’ ‘User profile service failed the sign-in,’ etc....

Users generally encounter this problem while loading Java-based programs like Minecraft and IDE packages such as Eclipse. The Java Virtual machine (JVM) interprets the Java Byte code into a machine-readable form. When you try to load any java application, the interpreter JVM fails to run, ultimately leading toCould not create the java virtual machine error. Usually, this error is generated if the RAM allocation for Java is set lower than what it really requires....

Whenever your computer is connected to a network or the Internet, your device will have two IP addresses—the public IP address and the private IP address. All devices on the Internet use your public IP for communication, whereas the private IP is for your local network only. In fact, when most use the term “IP address,” they actually refer to a private IP address. You can find out your computer’s private and public IP through PowerShell in different ways....

Have you ever wanted to operate anold PCbut found it connected to a work domain? Or maybe you tried to remove your computer from a non-existent domain but were unable to. Well, there’s no need to look any further. In this article, we will explain in detail the methods you can use to disconnect your computer from a domain. Remove Your Computer From a Domain in Windows There are a few ways to remove your computer from a domain....