The "finger" command remains exploitable for remote code execution even after years of disuseAttackers use batch scripts to ...

Microsoft Windows may be the dominant player on the desktop, but the rapidly increasing open source software market—especially for admin and dev tools—clearly favors Linux. Not to mention the mobile ...

After finalizing her divorce from Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in 2019, Scott ended up with a load of shares she earned from ...

FFmpeg was designed as a cross-platform solution for video and audio recording, conversion, and streaming. Its About page describes the command-line tool as “the leading multimedia framework, able to ...

- as well, Cygwin has to translate disk I/O calls. In practice, the same bash scripts with repeated reads and/or writes can take up to 4x longer to run in Cygwin vs. in the Centos VM on the same host ...

Graphical interfaces have come a long way over the years, but like many IT professionals today, I still spend a remarkable number of hours in either a terminal window or using keyboard productivity ...

PowerShell can save you a lot of time on Windows admin tasks, but to use it effectively you need to understand how it works. Here's a crash course in Windows PowerShell scripting basics to get you ...

I find myself amazed at how many IT professionals still avoid the command line. Even if you're no longer a hands-on, technical IT practitioner, you've surely got some familiarity with it. The command ...