FileSystem Monitor utility that runs on Linux, Android, iOS and OSX. Brought to you by Sergi Àlvarez at Nowsecure and distributed under the MIT license. Contact: [email protected] Usage The tool retrieves file system events from a specific directory and shows them in colorful format or in JSON. It is possible to filter the events […]
This tool is designed to manipulate FAT filesystems, in order to explore, extract, repair, recover and forensic them. It currently supports FAT12, FAT16 and FAT32. Building and installing You can build fatcat this way: mkdir build cd build cmake .. make And then install it: make install Exploring Using fatcat Fatcat takes an image as […]
A bug in Microsoft’s NTFS file system technology allows pranksters to hang or crash computers running Windows Vista, Windows 7, and Windows 8.1 just by tricking the user to access a malformed path for a non-existent file. The bug was discovered by a Russian system programmer going by the name of Anatolymik, working for information […]
Short Bytes: We’re all familiar with filesystems, the way our computers organize our files on storage volumes. And I’m sure that we’re all familiar with those old text-based dungeon crawler RPG games. But what happens when you combine the two? You get the oddly wonderful dungeonfs, a game that utilizes the ubiquitous command line tools, […]
Short Bytes: ReactOS is an open source clone of Windows that’s developed from scratch. The latest release, ReactOS 0.4.2, comes with updated software and enhanced user experience. A major addition to the OS comes in the form of support for multiple Unix and Linux filesystems. If you are looking for an open source replacement of […]
Short Bytes: In a slight intermission in the Btrfs series, we’re looking at WinBtrfs, a “from-scratch” implementation of the Linux brainchild filesystem, Btrfs. Windows has a notorious lack of support for filesystems, and a shaky reputation with its RAID software, meaning WinBtrfs could be a saving grace for filesystems on Windows. Like Apple, Microsoft has […]
Short Bytes: Linux is known for supporting the most filesystems out of all operating systems. There are many retro ones, there are the tried and true, and then there are the next generation filesystems with amazing features. There are so many, in fact, that it can be extremely daunting to the average user, and more […]
Short Bytes: Btrfs is a cutting edge filesystem that offers many features like Copy-on-Write, snapshots, and RAID which we’ll be looking at in this article. A wide variety of configurations can be achieved using just the Btrfs mkfs command. Btrfs is considered as the next-generation Linux filesystem. You can read all about it here in […]
Short Bytes: Linux boasts a cornucopia of filesystems, some cutting edge, some cross platform, and some retro support from days of UNIX past. Btrfs is one that’s been sticking its head above the crowd lately, and for good reasons like its Copy-on-Write, RAID functionality, and Snapshotting ability. A filesystem is the underlying structure by which the […]
Short Bytes: CentOS Linux 6.8, based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.8, is now available for download. This release comes with many important features and changes that include the support for up to 300TB data on XFS filesystems and lots of security fixes. The CentOS Linux project has officially released the CentOS Linux 6.8 version and […]
Another antivirus maker decides to mess around with Chromium default security features and gets it totally wrong. Just two days after Comodo’s Chromodo browser was publicly shamed by Google Project Zero security researcher Tavis Ormandy, it’s now Avast’s turn to be publicly scorned for failing to provide a “secure” browser for its users. While Chromodo […]